Film theory and contemporary Hollywood movies / edited by Warren Buckland.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Buckland, Warren.

Series:

AFI film readers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Philosophy.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--United States.

United States.

Physical Description:

vi, 355 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2009.

Contents:

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 / Saša Vojković

(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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415962612

0415962617

9780415962629

0415962625

9780203030769

0203030761

OCLC:

166361645