Contemporary American Cinema
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Contemporary American Cinema
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Author : Williams , Linda Ruth
language : en
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Release Date : 2006-05-01
Contemporary American Cinema written by Williams , Linda Ruth and has been published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-01 with Performing Arts categories.
This is a comprehensive introduction to post-classical American film. Covering American cinema since 1960, the text looks at both Hollywood and non-mainstream cinema.
Contemporary American Independent Film
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Author : Chris Holmlund
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2005
Contemporary American Independent Film written by Chris Holmlund and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Performing Arts categories.
This anthology addresses the salient aesthetic, ideological and economic determinants of independent American cinema over the past three decades.
Film Firsts
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Author : Ethan Alter
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 2014-02-17
Film Firsts written by Ethan Alter and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-17 with Performing Arts categories.
Alter examines 25 key movies that demonstrated a significant creative, technological, or business innovation that impacted the American cinema industry at large.
Contemporary Us Cinema
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Author : Michael Allen
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-09-25
Contemporary Us Cinema written by Michael Allen and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-25 with Performing Arts categories.
Contemporary U.S. Cinema is a forceful exploration of the tumultuous changes that have dominated the shifting landscape of American film-making over the past three decades. From the explosive release of Easy Rider to the excesses of Heaven's Gate and the comic book figures of Spider-Man, its aim is to examine the economic, social and cultural contexts of mainstream and independent American films. The book divides into nine provocative chapters with material on: the most significant individual film-makers, such as Scorsese, Coppola and Lucas, as well as independent film-makers like Jarmusch and Anders the careers of leading actors of the last thirty years, such as Jack Nicholson, Robert Redford and Julia Roberts, whilst exploring the powerful position of the film star in the modern American film-making process the economics of Contemporary U.S. Cinema with particular reference to the tortuous journey from production, distribution and exhibition of Waterworld and Titanic the artistic influence of foreign film-makers, such as François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, and explores Hollywood's increasing dominance and reliance on the global market genres, sequels and the recent developments in computer-based technologies, using examples from The Godfather I - III, The Matrix, the Star Wars saga and remakes from Shaft to Ocean's Eleven The book is illustrated with stills throughout and includes a bibliography and annotated further reading list.
Studying Contemporary American Film
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Author : Thomas Elsaesser
language : en
Publisher: Hodder Education
Release Date : 2002
Studying Contemporary American Film written by Thomas Elsaesser and has been published by Hodder Education this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Performing Arts categories.
How should the student set about exploring contemporary American cinema? This book takes an innovative approach to film analysis: each chapter examines the assumptions behind one traditional theory of film, distils a method of analysis from it, and then analyses a contemporary American movie.It then goes beyond the traditional theory by analysing the same movie using a more current theory and method.Traditional theories featured include mise-en-scene criticism, auteurism, structural analysis, narratology, studies of realism, psychoanalysis and feminism. More current theories include new and post-Lacanian approaches to subjectivity, cognitivism, computerized statistical style analysis, thephilosophy of modal logic, new media theory and deconstruction. Films analysed include Chinatown, Die Hard, The Silence of the Lambs, Jurassic Park, The Lost World, Back to the Future, Lost Highway, plus two European imitations of American filmmaking, The English Patient and The Fifth Element.All students of film and popular culture will find this book the ideal preparation for writing clear, well-structured, detailed analyses of their favourite American movies.
Generation Multiplex
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Author : Timothy Shary
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2009-01-27
Generation Multiplex written by Timothy Shary and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-27 with Performing Arts categories.
When teenagers began hanging out at the mall in the early 1980s, the movies followed. Multiplex theaters offered teens a wide array of perspectives on the coming-of-age experience, as well as an escape into the alternative worlds of science fiction and horror. Youth films remained a popular and profitable genre through the 1990s, offering teens a place to reflect on their evolving identities from adolescence to adulthood while simultaneously shaping and maintaining those identities. Drawing examples from hundreds of popular and lesser-known youth-themed films, Timothy Shary here offers a comprehensive examination of the representation of teenagers in American cinema in the 1980s and 1990s. He focuses on five subgenres—school, delinquency, horror, science, and romance/sexuality—to explore how they represent teens and their concerns, how these representations change over time, and how youth movies both mirror and shape societal expectations and fears about teen identities and roles. He concludes that while some teen films continue to exploit various notions of youth sexuality and violence, most teen films of the past generation have shown an increasing diversity of adolescent experiences and have been sympathetic to the particular challenges that teens face.
Millennial Masculinity
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Author : Timothy Shary
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2012-12-17
Millennial Masculinity written by Timothy Shary and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-17 with Art categories.
In virtually every aspect of culture-health, marriage, family, morals, politics, sex, race, economics-American men of the past two decades have faced changing social conditions and confronted radical questions about themselves. In Millennial Masculinity: Men in Contemporary American Cinema, editor Timothy Shary collects fourteen contributions that consider male representation in films made at the turn of the century to explore precisely how those questions have been dealt with in cinema. Contributors move beyond the recent wave of "masculinity in crisis" arguments to provide sophisticated and often surprising insight into accessible films. Chapters are arranged in four sections: "Performing Masculinity" includes a discussion of Adam Sandler and movies such as Milk; "Patriarchal Problems" looks at issues of fathers from directors such as Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson, and David Fincher; "Exceptional Sexualities" examines male love and sex through movies like Brokeback Mountain and Wedding Crashers; and "Facing Race" explores masculinity through race in film. Sean Penn, Jackie Chan, Brad Pitt, Will Smith, and Philip Seymour Hoffman are some of the actors included in these analyses, while themes considered include police thrillers, psychotic killers, gay tensions, fashion sense, and the burgeoning "bromance" genre. Taken together, the essays in Millennial Masculinity shed light on the high stakes of masculine roles in contemporary American cinema. Film and television scholars as well as readers interested in gender and sexuality in film will appreciate this timely collection.
Contemporary Hollywood Cinema
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Author : STEVE NEALE
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-04-15
Contemporary Hollywood Cinema written by STEVE NEALE and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-15 with Social Science categories.
A comprehensive overview of the film industry in Hollywood today, Contemporary Hollywood Cinema brings together leading international cinema scholars to explore the technology, institutions, film makers and movies of contemporary American film making.
Contemporary Latin American Cinema
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Author : Deborah Shaw
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Release Date : 2007-04-09
Contemporary Latin American Cinema written by Deborah Shaw and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04-09 with Performing Arts categories.
This engaging book explores some of the most significant films to emerge from Latin America since 2000, an extraordinary period of international recognition for the region's cinema. Each chapter assesses an individual film, with some contributors considering the reasons for the unprecedented commercial and critical successes of movies such as City of God, The Motorcycle Diaries, Y tu mamá también, and Nine Queens, while others examine why equally important films failed to break out on the international circuit. Written by leading specialists, the chapters not only offer textual analysis, but also trace the films' social context and production conditions, as well as critical national and transnational issues. Their well-rounded analyses provide a rich picture of the state of contemporary filmmaking in a range of Latin American countries. Nuanced and thought-provoking, the readings in this book will provide invaluable interpretations for students and scholars of Latin American film. Contributions by: Sarah Barrow, Nuala Finnegan, David William Foster, Miraim Haddu, Geoffrey Kantaris, Deborah Shaw, Lisa Shaw, Rob Stone, Else R. P. Vieira, and Claire Williams.
Contemporary Black American Cinema
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Author : Mia Mask
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-08-21
Contemporary Black American Cinema written by Mia Mask and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-21 with Performing Arts categories.
Contemporary Black American Cinema offers a fresh collection of essays on African American film, media, and visual culture in the era of global multiculturalism. Integrating theory, history, and criticism, the contributing authors deftly connect interdisciplinary perspectives from American studies, cinema studies, cultural studies, political science, media studies, and Queer theory. This multidisciplinary methodology expands the discursive and interpretive registers of film analysis. From Paul Robeson’s and Sidney Poitier’s star vehicles to Lee Daniels’s directorial forays, these essays address the career legacies of film stars, examine various iterations of Blaxploitation and animation, question the comedic politics of "fat suit" films, and celebrate the innovation of avant-garde and experimental cinema.