Barbara Creed

Darwin's Screens

Evolutionary Aesthetics, Time and Sexual Display in the Cinema

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Produktbeschreibung

Addresses the major gap in film scholarship - the influence of Charles Darwin's theories on the history of the cinema. This title argues that Darwinian ideas influenced the evolution of early film genres such as horror, the detective film, science fiction, film noir and the musical.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Melbourne University
• Print on Demand edition
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 259g
• ISBN-13: 9780522857092
• ISBN-10: 0522857094
• Artikelnr.: 54713478

Autorenporträt

Barbara Creed is Professor of Cinema Studies and Head of the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. She is author of the acclaimed The Monstrous-feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis; Media Matrix: Sexing the New Reality and Phallic Panic: Film, Horror & the Primal Uncanny. She is also a well-known film critic and media commentator, and her writings on cinema have been translated into many languages for a range of international journals and anthologies.