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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... spectators, the active spectator), which scholars identified as important in the late 1980s and in the 1990s. Research progresses, therefore, by addressing the incompleteness of a theory. Research also progresses through the ...
... spectator's changing awareness— his/her alternating attention between absorption in the Imaginary and awareness of the Symbolic. Branigan confines his exhaustive description to Oudart's analysis of one shot in The General (Keaton, 1926) ...
... spectator. But whereas the Screen theorists examined the way a film addresses unconscious desires and fantasies, the cognitivists analyze “normative behavior such as perception, narrative comprehension, social cognition, and the ...
... spectators resort to inferring an unreliable narrator, and offers an informative study of unreliable character-narrators in The Usual Suspects (1995), Fight Club (1999), and Memento (2000). Using The Lord of the Rings films as his case ...
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