Film Theory and Contemporary Hollywood Movies (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Buckland, Warren

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In this volume, contributors explore recent popular movies through the lens of film theory, beginning with industrial-economic analysis before moving into a predominately aesthetic and interpretive framework. The Hollywood films discussed cover a wide range from 300 to Fifty First Dates, from Brokeback Mountain to Lord of the Rings, from Spider-Man 3 to Fahrenheit 9/11, from Saw to Raiders of the Lost Ark, and much more. Individual essays consider such topics as the rules that govern new blockbuster franchises, the 'posthumanist realism' of digital cinema, video game adaptations, increasingly restricted stylistic norms, the spatial stories of social networks like YouTube, the mainstreaming of queer culture, and the cognitive paradox behind enjoyable viewing of traumatic events onscreen.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135895747
• Artikelnr.: 43073096

Autorenporträt

Warren Buckland is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Oxford Brookes University. His authored and edited books include Puzzle Films, Directed by Steven Spielberg, Studying Contemporary American Film (with Thomas Elsaesser), and The Cognitive Semiotics of Film. He also edits the New Review of Film and Television Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Warren Buckland
Part One: New Practices, New Aesthetics
1. New Hollywood, New Millennium, Thomas Schatz
2. The Supernatural in Neo-Baroque Hollywood, Sean Cubitt
3. Man without a Movie Camera-Movies without Men: Towards a Posthumanist
Cinema? William Brown
4. Movie-games and Game-movies: Towards an Aesthetic of Transmediality,
Douglas Brown and Tanya Krzywinska
5. Saw Heard: Musical Sound Design in Contemporary Cinema, K.J. Donnelly
6. The Shape of 1999: The Stylistics of American Movies at the End of the
Century, Barry Salt
7. Tales of Epiphany and Entropy: Paranarrative Worlds on YouTube, Thomas
Elsaesser
Part Two: Feminism, Philosophy, and Queer Theory
8. Reformulating the Symbolic Universe: Kill Bill and Tarantino's
Transcultural Imaginary, Saa Vojkovic¿
9. (Broke)back to the Mainstream: Queer Theory and Queer Cinemas Today,
Harry M. Benshoff
10. Demystifying Deleuze: French Philosophy Meets Contemporary US Cinema,
David Martin-Jones
Part Three: Rethinking Affects, Narration, Fantasy, and Realism
11. Trauma, Pleasure, and Emotion in the Viewing of Titanic: A Cognitive
Approach, Carl Plantinga
12. Mementos of Contemporary American Cinema: Identifying and Responding to
the Unreliable Narrator in the Movie Theater, Volker Ferenz
13. Fantasy Audiences versus Fantasy Audiences, Martin Barker
14. "What is There Really in the World?" Forms of Theory, Evidence and
Truth in Fahrenheit 9/11: A Philosophical and Intuitionist Realist
Approach, Ian Aitken
Notes on Contributors
Index