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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... to the wrangles behind the production of The Hobbit. Sean Cubitt returns to the question that (as I pointed out above) has dominated the study of contemporary Hollywood cinema—periodization, 7 i n troduction 8 w a r r e n b u c.
... production. The digital is posthumanist, Brown argues, to the extent that it (especially in the form of invisible digital special effects) “presents the impossible to us as if it were possible.” Moreover, this sense of posthumanism does ...
... Production to 1960. New York: Routledge, 1985. Bové, Paul. In the Wake of Theory. Hanover: Wesleyan University Press, 1992. Boyd, Brian. “Theory Is Dead—Like a Zombie.” Philosophy and Literature 30.1 (2006): 289-98. Branigan, Edward ...
... production (and media products) and the myriad forces that both shape and, in rare cases, are shaped by that production. My own work has continued along these lines, focusing mainly on the film industry in the late 1980s and 1990s as ...
... produce content for both the movie and TV industries, and operate in close cooperation with the “home entertainment” divisions, which play a vital role in film industry fortunes due to the impact of DVD on the home-video industry. Key ...
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feminism philosophy and queer theory | |
rethinking affects narration fantasy and realism | |
contributors | |
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