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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... Screen theory”)2 by design is narrowly focused: it followed the simplicity principle and attempted to reduce, by as much as possible, the negative complexity of film, by limiting itself only to the study of those characteristics thought ...
... Screen Theory (with a capital T), and envisage an open dialog among theorists with the hope that theory will advance through dialectical exchange. In its turn, Rodowick's “Elegy for Theory” offers a fundamental response and challenge to ...
... Screen theory in the 1970s. In The Classical Hollywood Cinema, Bordwell, Staiger, and Thompson rejected interpretive analysis and instead combined in depth industrialeconomic analysis with astute aesthetic analysis. Although the authors ...
... screen,” she argues, “we need to explore the possibility of reworking the symbolic universe.” Harry M. Benshoff begins his chapter to this volume by noting that an unprecedented number of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered ...
... Screen theory a focus on the interface between film and spectator. But whereas the Screen theorists examined the way a film addresses unconscious desires and fantasies, the cognitivists analyze “normative behavior such as perception ...
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feminism philosophy and queer theory | |
rethinking affects narration fantasy and realism | |
contributors | |
index | |