Format:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 216 pages)
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illustrations
ISBN:
9781501336942
Content:
"Since the late 1990s a new language has emerged in film scholarship and criticism in response to the popularity of American directors such as Wes Anderson, Charlie Kaufman, and David O. Russell. Increasingly, adjectives like 'quirky', 'cute', and 'smart' are used to describe these American films, with a focus on their ironic (and sometimes deliberately comical) stories, character situations and tones. Kim Wilkins argues that, beyond the seemingly superficial descriptions, 'American eccentric cinema' presents a formal and thematic eccentricity that is distinct to the American context. She distinguishes these films from mainstream Hollywood cinema as they exhibit irregularities in characterization, tone, and setting, and deviate from established generic conventions. Each chapter builds a case for this position through detailed film analyses and comparisons to earlier American traditions, such as the New Hollywood cinema of the 1960s and 1970s. American Eccentric Cinema promises to challenge the notion of irony in American contemporary cinema, and questions the relationship of irony to a complex national and individual identity"--Bloomsbury Publishing
Content:
Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Neoliberal Citizenship and the Eccentric -- Locating the Eccentric in Cinema -- New Hollywood and Eccentric Connections -- Chapter One: Defining American Eccentricity -- Indie and Eccentricity -- American Eccentricity and Irony -- Anxiety -- Eccentricity -- Chapter Two: Road Films and National Identity -- American Eccentricity and Genre -- The Eccentric Road Film: From Easy Rider to The Darjeeling Limited -- The Road and Kaufman's Mind Trips -- Chapter Three: Overtly Cinematic Characterization -- Overtly Cinematic Characters and Audience Identification -- Wes Anderson and Overtly Cinematic Characterization -- Eccentric or 'Smart' Characterization? -- Wes Anderson's Eccentric Characters -- Chapter Four: Hyper-Dialogue and the Eccentric Manner -- The Shift from New Hollywood Naturalism to Eccentric Hyper-Dialogue -- Dialogue and Convention -- Hyper-Dialogue and Performance -- Hyper-Dialogue as Dramatic Function -- Hyper-Dialogue and Sincerity -- Chapter Five: Eccentric Worlds -- Eccentric Deviations from Realism -- Eccentricity and the Intertextual World -- Eccentric Cities: Magnolia -- Conclusion: Beyond Eccentricity -- Ripples of Eccentricity -- Outside the Box -- Index -- Filmography -- Bibliography.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-209), filmography (pages 195-199) and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781501336911
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781501336928
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781501336935
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Wilkins, Kim, 1986 - American eccentric cinema New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019 ISBN 9781501336911
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1501336916
Language:
English
Keywords:
USA
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Exzentrizität
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Film
DOI:
10.5040/9781501336942
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