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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... plays a starring role in film studies today, as critics proclaim that theory is dead and we are living in a posttheory moment. While theory may be out of the limelight, it remains an essential key to understanding the full complexity of ...
... plays hide and seek. (Francesco Casetti, 44) film theory Debates on the status of theory—especially in the humanities—over the last few decades were largely dominated by ecological and evolutionary metaphors of theory's “life cycle ...
... playing hide and seek. In Shakespeare After Theory David Scott Kastan is more positive about theory's invisibility: “The great age of theory is over,” he writes, “but not because theory has been discredited; on the contrary, it is ...
... play into the film's overall reception? His Lord of the Rings project provides detailed answers to these questions, some of which are summarized in his chapter for this volume. In the final chapter, Ian Aitken uses contemporary ...
... play a vital role in film industry fortunes due to the impact of DVD on the home-video industry. Key to the conglomerates' hegemony and their financial welfare in the early 2000s has been the strategic integration of their film and TV ...
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feminism philosophy and queer theory | |
rethinking affects narration fantasy and realism | |
contributors | |
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