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Hollywood hybrids : mixing genres in contemporary films / Ira Jaffe.
Van Pelt Library PN1993.5.U6 J23 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jaffe, Ira, 1943-
- Series:
- Genre and beyond
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Film genres--United States.
- Film genres.
- Motion pictures--United States.
- Motion pictures.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 181 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2008]
- Summary:
- Through close readings of work by major U.S. filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino, David Lynch, Errol Morris, Todd Haynes, and Joel and Ethan Coen, Hollywood Hybrids studies provocative, disorienting strategies of genre mixing in contemporary cinema. The book also investigates foreign parallels to U.S. hybrid cinema in films by such directors as Pedro Almodovar and Stephen Chow. Rather than explore genre primarily from the standpoint of movie critics, producers, marketers, and spectators, Hollywood Hybrids focuses on genre mixing as a key creative interest motivating celebrated filmmakers, and thus relates genre to auteur theory. The book also links recent hybrid cinema to earlier instances of hybrid form in film and other arts, including painting, music, literature, and architecture.
- Contents:
- 1 Fact and Fiction 33
- 2 Gangster and Warrior 55
- 3 Melodrama and Teen Romance 81
- 4 Tragicomic Accidents 109
- 5 Global Parallels 131.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-166) and index.
- Includes filmography: pages 167-170.
- ISBN:
- 9780742539501
- 0742539504
- 9780742539518
- 0742539512
- OCLC:
- 155715267
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