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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... of what has variously been called “contemporary film theory,” “modern film theory,” or “Screen theory”)2 by design is narrowly focused: it followed the simplicity principle and attempted to reduce, by as much as possible, the negative.
... Screen theory embraced positive complexity by incorporating within its semiotic framework Marxism and psychoanalysis. These theories studied additional absent structures and causes, such as ideology, society, and the unconscious ...
... 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 ...
Warren Buckland. alternatives to Screen Theory. But option 3 has been misused as well. Attempts to discard previous theories are suffused with “present mindedness,” a failure to understand ... Screen Theory. But option 3 has been misused ...
... Screen theory in the 1970s. In The Classical Hollywood Cinema, Bordwell, Staiger, and Thompson rejected interpretive analysis and instead combined in depth industrial-economic analysis with astute aesthetic analysis. contemporary ...