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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... cultural dynamics whose histories are braided together.” Films such as Van Helsing (2004) and 300 (2006), he argues, braid together neo-baroque and classical elements. William Brown argues that contemporary cinema is posthumanist not ...
... cultural exchange and influence between Asian and Western cinemas. Vojkovic ́ argues that Kill Bill represents a fictional world where the Lacanian “Law-of-the-Father” does not hold. “If psychoanalysis is to be brought into a productive ...
... cultural roles they variously attribute to fantasy.” He outlines different types of empirical research into fantasy audiences before detailing his extensive Lord of the Rings project. “At the heart of the project,” Barker writes, were ...
... cultural theory to task for failing to address several fundamental questions: Most of the objections to theory are either false or fairly trifling. A far more devastating criticism of it can be launched. Cultural theory as we have it ...
... cultural, and institutional conditions of humanities theory, including structural linguistics, structuralism, and semiotics, see Niilo Kauppi, and Ian Hunter, “History of Theory” and “Time of Theory.” 5. Developing a balanced view of ...
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feminism philosophy and queer theory | |
rethinking affects narration fantasy and realism | |
contributors | |
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