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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... 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 ...
... analysis of one shot in The General (Keaton, 1926). After presenting these nine successive stages (135–6), Branigan redescribes them entirely in terms of framing: the spectator's awareness moves from the nonframed, to the unframed ...
... analysis, which in turn influenced Screen theory in the 1970s. In The Classical Hollywood Cinema, Bordwell, Staiger, and Thompson rejected interpretive analysis ... analysis with astute aesthetic analysis. contemporary hollywood movies ...
Warren Buckland. instead combined in depth industrial-economic analysis with astute aesthetic analysis. Although the authors defined classical Hollywood filmmaking as covering the period 1917– 1960, in chapter 30 (367–77) Bordwell argued ...
... analysis, which he has been developing for over 30 years, to determine the stylistic norms governing contemporary American films. He selects 20 films from the year 1999 and collects data on their stylistic parameters, including average ...