Alistair Fox

Melodrama, Masculinity and International Art Cinema (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a detailed study of how some of the most illustrious auteurs in the history of art cinema have made use of melodrama to represent masculine subjectivity on the screen.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781839984099
• Artikelnr.: 63419587

Autorenporträt

Alistair Fox is professor emeritus in the Department of English and Linguistics at the University of Otago

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Italian
Neorealism and the Emergence of the Male Melodrama: Vittorio De
Sica'sBicycle Thieves (1948) and Umberto D. (1952); 2. The Migration of
Male Melodrama into Non-Western Cultures: Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy
(1955-59) and "Fourth Cinema" ; 3. Hollywood Melodrama as a Vehicle for
Self-Projection: Vincente Minnelli's Tea and Sympathy (1956) and Home from
the Hill (1960); 4. The Political Turns Personal: Neo-Neorealism and Pier
Paolo Pasolini's Accattone(1961); 5. Personal Cinema as Psychodrama: Ingmar
Bergman's Wild Strawberries (1957), Winter Light (1963) and Hour of the
Wolf (1968); 6. François Truffaut and the Tyranny of Romantic Obsession:
The Soft Skin (1964), Mississippi Mermaid (1969) and The Woman Next Door
(1981); 7. Figuring an Authorial Fantasmatic: Jacques Demy's The Umbrellas
of Cherbourg (1964), A Room In Town (1982) and Parking (1985); 8. Rainer
Werner Fassbinder and the Emergence of Queer Cinema: The Merchant of Four
Seasons (1972), Fox and His Friends (1975) and In a Year with 13 Moons
(1978); 9. Visual Aestheticism and the Queer Prestige Melodrama: Call Me by
Your Name (2017) and Luca Guadagnino's Desire Trilogy; Conclusion; List of
Films Cited; Select Bibliography; Index