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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... emotion in the viewing of titanic: a cognitive approach carl plantinga 12. mementos of contemporary american cinema: identifying and responding to the unreliable narrator in the movie theater volkerferenz 13. fantasy audiences versus ...
... emotions, spirit/flesh, universal/particular, language/image, telling/showing); are uncritical, complacent and dogmatic in their reliance on • theoretical doctrines (when they should be relying on data); live under the misguided ...
... emotions such as fear and pity” (Plantinga, 20). Carl Plantinga argues that cognitive film theory should not be identified exclusively as a sub-branch of cognitive science. Instead, one might say that cognitive film theorists tend to be ...
... emotion to address this paradox. Like Plantinga, Volker Ferenz also draws upon cognitive and affective theory (especially that of Edward Branigan and Murray Smith), but he uses it to add some much needed clarity and precision to the ...
... emotion; together with a new vocabulary that emphasizes porous boundaries—such as the transcultural and transmedial. Perhaps these hybrid spaces, as Homi Bhabha argues, “emerge in moments of historical transformation” (2) and represent ...
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feminism philosophy and queer theory | |
rethinking affects narration fantasy and realism | |
contributors | |
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