Film Theory and Contemporary Hollywood MoviesWarren Buckland Routledge, 2009 M06 3 - 368 páginas Film theory no longer gets top billing or plays a starring role in film studies today, as critics proclaim that theory is dead and we are living in a post-theory moment. While theory may be out of the limelight, it remains an essential key to understanding the full complexity of cinema, one that should not be so easily discounted or discarded. 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. With its cast of international film scholars, Film Theory and Contemporary Hollywood Movies demonstrates the remarkable contributions theory can offer to film studies and moviegoers alike. |
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... 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 ...
... American commercial cinema 1940–1999 6.2 The proportions of shots of different scale (or closeness) 6.3 Average Shot Length of American films released between 1982 and 1987 tables 1.1 2006 net U.S. media revenue 6.1 Average Shot Lengths ...
Warren Buckland. 8 w a r r e n b u c k l a n d of how different contemporary Hollywood is from classical Hollywood ... Films such as Van Helsing (2004) and 300 (2006), he argues, braid together ... American films. He selects 20 films from the ...
... films are now being made according to increasingly restricted stylistic norms. Calling to mind Michel de Certeau's ... American film industry? Does the mainstreaming of gay and lesbian culture and concerns necessarily mean its commodification ...
... hollywood in the new millennium The most salient development in contemporary Hollywood has been the formation of the so-called Big Six media conglomerates and their hegemony over the American film (and TV) industry (Epstein; Schatz ...
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feminism philosophy and queer theory | |
rethinking affects narration fantasy and realism | |
contributors | |
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