Format:
1 online resource (366 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780203030769
Series Statement:
AFI Film Readers Series
Content:
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
Note:
Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- contents -- illustrations -- acknowledgments -- introduction -- part one: new practices, new aesthetics -- one: new hollywood, new millennium -- two: the supernatural in neo-baroque hollywood -- three: man without a movie camera-movies without men: towards a posthumanist cinema? -- four: movie-games and game-movies: towards an aesthetics of transmediality -- five: saw heard: musical sound design in contemporary cinema -- six: the shape of 1999: the stylistics of american movies at the end of the century -- seven: tales of epiphany and entropy: paranarrative worlds on youtube -- part two: feminism, philosophy, and queer theory -- eight: reformulating the symbolic universe: kill bill and tarantino's transcultural imaginary -- nine: (broke) back to the mainstream: queer theory and queer cinemas today -- ten: demystifying deleuze: french philosophy meets contemporary u.s. cinema -- part three: rethinking affects, narration, fantasy, and realism -- eleven: trauma, pleasure, and emotion in the viewing of titanic: a cognitive approach -- twelve: mementos of contemporary american cinema: identifying and responding to the unreliable narrator in the movie theater -- thirteen: fantasy audiences versus fantasy audiences -- fourteen: "what is there really in the world?" forms of theory, evidence and truth in fahrenheit 9/11: a philosophical and intuitionist realist approach -- contributors -- index
Additional Edition:
Print version Buckland, Warren Film Theory and Contemporary Hollywood Movies Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2009 ISBN 9780415962612
Language:
English
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