Alistair Fox

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

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Produktbeschreibung

This book presents a series of essays that reassess the role of melodrama in a number of touchstone films in the art-cinema tradition that explore the subjective experience of a central male protagonist, announcing the emergence of a genre that has progressively proliferated in contemporary cinema. Case studies by such notable auteurs as Vittorio De Sica, Satyajit Ray, Vincente Minnelli, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ingmar Bergman, François Truffaut, Jacques Demy, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Luca Guadagnino demonstrate how the art-house male melodrama offers a vision of masculinity that is sexually fluid, fragmented, unstable, and often incapacitated to the point of paralysis, rather than the heroic stereotypes commonly found in popular genre cinema.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 236
• 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