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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Warren Buckland. Film. Theory. and. Contemporary. Hollywood. Movies. Film theory no longer gets top billing or plays a starring role in film studies ... Film and Television Studies. Previously published in the AFI Film Readers series Edited ...
... film theory's apparent demise: “there is no more theory because there is no more cinema” (35); cinema “has never existed as such” (37); and “the third reason for the weakening of film theory may be found in the weakening of the social ...
... film theory (a branch of what has variously been called “contemporary film theory,” “modern film theory,” or “Screen theory”)2 by design is narrowly focused: it followed the simplicity principle and attempted to reduce, by as much as ...
... films. These structures and causes, while not observable in themselves, are made visible by theory. The ultimate objective of film theory is to construct models of film's nonobservable underlying structures in an attempt to explain the ...
... Films such as Van Helsing (2004) and 300 (2006), he argues, braid together neo-baroque and classical elements. William ... film's “conscious” and its “unconscious,” a collapse, he argues, which can be found beyond his favored genre, the ...
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feminism philosophy and queer theory | |
rethinking affects narration fantasy and realism | |
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