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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... 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 Memento and Kill Bill ...
... aesthetics 17 1. new hollywood, new millennium 19 thomas schatz 2. the supernatural in neo-baroque hollywood 47 sean cubitt 3. man without a movie camera—movies without men: towards a posthumanist cinema? 66 william brown 4. movie-games ...
... aesthetic; (2) the interpretive; and (3) the industrial-economic (or media industry studies). The aesthetic approach was initiated by the auteurism of Cahiers du cinéma (Hillier, ed.), Andrew Sarris, Movie magazine (Cameron; Perkins) ...
... aesthetic objects such as documentary films as consisting of a network of theoretical categories which provide both descriptions of the subject as problematic and provisional accounts of causality.” Aitken provocatively argues that ...
... aesthetics/its digital quantification; map/itinerary (based on contiguity, combinatory and chance, with tag-clouds as one's only guide); signification (the Symbolic)/the material body; the pairings homosexual-marginal/heterosexual ...
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feminism philosophy and queer theory | |
rethinking affects narration fantasy and realism | |
contributors | |
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