Martin Flanagan

Bakhtin and the Movies

New Ways of Understanding Hollywood Film

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Produktbeschreibung

Martin Flanagan uses Bakhtin's notions of dialogism, chronotope and polyphony to address fundamental questions about film form and reception, focussing particularly on the way cinematic narrative utilises time and space in its very construction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-20296-2
• 2009
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9780230202962
• ISBN-10: 0230202969
• Artikelnr.: 25903381

Autorenporträt

MARTIN FLANAGAN is Senior Lecturer in Film and Media Studies at the University of Bolton, UK. His research explores the interrelated dynamics of narrative, genre and audience in contemporary cinema. He has published articles on several Hollywood genres including the Western, the action film, and the comic book adaptation, and on the directors Terrence Malick and Robert Rodriguez.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Dialogism and Film Studies: The Dialogic Spectator Chronotope I: Time, Space, Narrative Chronotope II: Time, Space and Genre in the Western Film Polyphony: Authorship and Power Hollywood Calling: Cinema's Technological Address Conclusion: Making It Real Notes Bibliography Filmography Index

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'A well-needed instalment in the sparse critical work on Bakhtin and cinema...this study unlocks new ways of understanding the circulation and production of film meaning.'

- Hunter Vaughan, New Review of Film and Television Studies