Film theory and contemporary Hollywood movies / edited by Warren Buckland. - New York : Routledge, c2009. - 1 online resource (vi, 355 p.) : ill. - AFI film readers . - AFI film readers. .

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

New Hollywood, new aesthetics. New Hollywood, new millennium / Thomas Schatz -- The supernatural in neo-baroque Hollywood / Sean Cubitt -- Man without a movie camera, movies without men: towards a posthumanist cinema? / William Brown -- Movie-games and game-movies: towards an aesthetics of transmediality / Douglas Brown and Tanya Krzywinska -- Saw heard: musical sound design in contemporary cinema / K.J. Donnelly -- The shape of 1999: the stylistics of American movies at the end of the century / Barry Salt -- Tales of epiphany and entropy: paranarrative worlds on YouTube / Thomas Elsaesser -- Feminism, philosophy, and queer theory. Reformulating the symbolic universe: Kill Bill and Tarantino's transcultural imaginary / Saésa Vojkoviá -- (Broke)back to the mainstream: queer theory and queer cinemas today / Harry M. Benshoff -- Demystifying Deleuze: French philosophy meets contemporary U.S. cinema / David Martin-Jones -- Rethinking affects, narration, fantasy, and realism. Trauma, pleasure, and emotion in the viewing of Titanic: a cognitive approach / Carl Plantinga -- Mementos of contemporary American cinema: identifying and responding to the unreliable narrator in the movie theater / Volker Ferenz -- Fantasy audiences versus fantasy audiences / Martin Barker -- "What is there really in the world?" Forms of theory, evidence and truth in Fahrenheit 9/11: a philosophical and intuitionist realist approach / Ian Aitken.

9780203030769 (electronic bk.) 0203030761 (electronic bk.)


Motion pictures--Philosophy.
Motion pictures--United States.
Electronic books.
Cine--Historia--Estados Unidos.
Actores y actrices de cine--Historia.
Películas cinematográficas--Historia y crítica.


Hollywood (Estados Unidos)--Historia.

PN 1995 / F487 2009

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