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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... responses to diverse and fluctuating situations. It was not able, in other words, to provide responses to the questions which began to be posed” (34–5). The theory of subject positioning could not handle the new level of negative ...
... responses: the theory can be (1) corrected (assuming the contradictions, etc., arose from errors or mistakes); (2) ... response and challenge to Bordwell and Carroll's scientific attitude to film theory. This attitude, Rodowick argues ...
... response. He does not stretch his understanding to learn from the past; instead, he contorts the past. He wears his ignorance on his sleeves. To understand any theory, a critic needs to comprehend it from the inside, in its own ...
... response to the difficulty of theory is to argue that, because film is a popular medium, it should be discussed only on a popular level. One only needs to read David Weddle's misguided attack on film theory in the Los Angeles Times ...
... Response to D.N. Rodowick's 'An Elegy for Theory'.” October 122 (2007): 110–20. Wasko, Janet. How Hollywood Works. London: Sage, 2003. Weddle, David. “Lights, Camera, Action: Marxism, Semiotics, Narratology.” The Los Angeles Times ...