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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... major studios, the conglomerate-owned indie divisions, and the genuine independents— which generate three very different classes of movie product. The transformative effects of these and other industry forces have grown steadily more ...
... major studios—i.e., Warner Bros., Disney, Universal, 20th Century Fox, Columbia (Sony), and Paramount (Viacom)—and in fact the term Big Six is used in the trade press to refer to both the major studios and their parent companies. The ...
... major studio-distributors consistently capturing the lion's share of that market in sell-through DVDs. In 2006, fully 45 percent of the studios' $42.6 billion in worldwide revenues mentioned above came from home video, and even top hits ...
... studios. This deficit-financing strategy was facilitated by the conglomerates' broadcast and cable TV “pipelines”—for all but Sony, that is, which has been an outlier among the Big Six in its lack of significant ... major divisions—Sony ...
... major studios' intensified blockbuster efforts and the annexation of the independent film sector by the conglomerate's so-called indie divisions. The former is in many ways more important due to the sheer commercial success of the movie ...
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feminism philosophy and queer theory | |
rethinking affects narration fantasy and realism | |
contributors | |
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