Anna Backman Rogers

American Independent Cinema

Rites of Passage and the Crisis Image

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines crisis, transition and metamorphosis in American independent cinema. This book explores various rites of passage (the teen movie, the road movie, the western), these films deal in images of crisis, transition and metamorphosis. It offers images that both engage with and undermine modes of cliched representation.

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Produktdetails

• Edinburgh Studies in Film
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 158mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9780748693603
• ISBN-10: 0748693602
• Artikelnr.: 42772088

Autorenporträt

Anna Backman Rogers is a Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Gothenberg, Sweden.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One: Adolescence: Sofia Coppola's 'The Virgin Suicides' (1999)
Adolescence: Gus Van Sant's 'Elephant' (2003)
Chapter Two: Death: Jim Jarmusch's 'Dead Man' (1994)
Death: Gus Van Sant's 'Last Days' (2004)
Chapter Three: Life-Crisis: Sofia Coppola's 'Somewhere' (2011)
Broken Flowers (2005)
Conclusion: The Crisis-Image -Mumblecore and Beyond
Bibliography
Filmography
Index