Mark Mckenna

Big Wednesday (eBook, PDF)

Lamenting Lost Youth in the New Hollywood

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides an examination of Big Wednesday as an unconventional film that employs a mythic sensibility in its representation of the loss of youth and young manhood. This unique study will appeal to students and scholars in film studies, popular culture studies, youth studies, sociology and media studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 142
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429608797
• Artikelnr.: 72258946

Autorenporträt

Mark McKenna is an Associate Professor in Film and Media Industries at Staffordshire University. His research interests are broadly focused on marketing and branding practices, media labour processes, and media policy and regulation strategy, and his work has explored these ideas in a range of contexts and from a number of different perspectives. He is the author of Nasty Business: The Marketing and Distribution of the Video Nasties and Snuff, and the co-editor of Horror Franchise Cinema (Routledge, 2021).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Storytelling in New Hollywood 2. Friendship, Innocence, and
Mythologized Youth 3. Resistance and Incorporation in Californian Surf
Culture 4. Authorship and the Star Director 5. Genre and the Male Melodrama
6. Youthful Archetypes and the Transition to Cult Stardom Epilogue