Critical approaches to the films of M. Night Shyamalan : spoiler warnings / edited by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shyamalan, M. Night--Criticism and interpretation.

Shyamalan, M. Night.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xxix, 233 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Summary:

"Critical Approaches to the Films of M. Night Shyamalan: Spoiler Warnings represents the first serious academic engagement with auteur director M. Night Shyamalan and his work. The essays, including contributions from established film scholars David Sterritt, Murray Pomerance, Emmanuel Bordeau, R. Barton Palmer, Matt Hills, and Katherine Fowkes, explore Shyamalan's Hollywood blockbusters from The Sixth Sense to The Happening in terms of their themes, aesthetics, and marketing, and attend as well to the production of Shyamalan himself as a celebrity director. Taken together, the collection recognizes and explores Shyamalan's "star status" and offers the concerted analysis that Shyamalan as cultural phenomenon requires"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : telling stories about telling stories: the films of M. Night Shyamalan / Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock

Feature one : narrating Shyamalan, narrating culture. The homefront hero in the films of M. Might Shyamalan / Elizabeth Abele

Reaching out to the other side : problematic families in the films of M. Night Shyamalan / Elizabeth Rosen

Melodrama and male crisis in Signs and Unbreakable / R. Barton Palmer

Spellbound in darkness : Shyamalan's epistemological twitch / David Sterritt

Four films by M. Night Shyamalan : oh, the irony? / Katherine A. Fowkes

The night book or The mirror and the page / Emmanuel Bordeau

Intermission: Shyamalan's story. Making sense of M. Night Shyamalan : signs of a popular auteur in the "field of horror" / Matt Hills

Reshaping the director as star : investigating M. Night Shyamalan's Image / Kim Owczarski

Feature two : stories by Shyamalan. Sigmund Freud, pedophile priests, and Shyamalan's filmic fairy tale (The sixth sense) / Jane F. Thrailkill

Unbreak my heart : the melodramatic superhero in Unbreakable / Matthew Yockey

Simulations of evil in M. Night Shyamalan's The village / Miriam Jordan and Julian Jason Haladyn

"Something ancient in modern times" : myth and meaning-making in Lady in the water / Nicholas Parker and Nirmal Trivedi

Whatever happened to M. Night Shyamalan : meditation on an "infection" film / Murray Pomerance.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230104082

0230104088

OCLC:

475447256