Smart cinema, DVD add-ons and new audience pleasures / by Pat Brereton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brereton, Pat.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

DVD-Video discs--Social aspects.

DVD-Video discs.

Independent films--United States--History and criticism.

Independent films.

Motion picture industry--United States--History.

Motion picture industry.

Social aspects.

United States.

History.

Motion pictures--Marketing.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

viii, 256 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Summary:

Smart movies broadly encapsulate what has been described as a reflexive and playful postmodern tendency and are augmented by the specific attributes of contemporary new digital media. These new attributes are drawn from video games and music videos in particular, as well as from other new generational e-pleasures and tastes. Pat Brereton examines a broad range of post-1990s indie and mainstream films that break many of the old classic linear narrative and generic rules which helped to define Hollywood and its alternative 'art' cinema. This work particularly explores how bonus features attached to smart DVDs are capable of speaking to new generational audiences. There is a continuing need for a creative and critical dialogue with new generations of students and audiences to help reinvigorate the study of film. DVD add-ons provide a useful bridge between new media and conventional film study, while assisting in exploring how new generational films fans related to smart cinema. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction to Smart Cinema 1

2 Postmodernism, Parody and Smart Cinema: Case Studies of Lynch, Tarantino, and Soderbergh 20

3 Independent New Smart Creatives and Niche Marketing - Case Studies of Richard Linklater, Spike Jonze, Christopher Nolan, and Michel Gondry 43

4 Smart Cult Classics: Case Studies of Donnie Darko, American Beauty, and Magnolia 63

5 European Art and Smart Cinema - Case Studies of Run Lola Run, Amélie, and Breaking the Waves 87

6 Smart Irish Comedy - Case Studies of When Brendan Met Trudy, Intermission and In Bruges 104

7 Social Realism and Contemporary British Smart Cinema: Case Studies of Trainspotting, Timecode and Sexy Beast 121

8 Smart Green/Nature Animation: Case Studies of Pixar - Wall-E, Up and Toy Story 141

9 Smart Science Fiction, DVD Add-Ons and New Media Logics - A Reading of Spielberg's Minority Report, AI: Artificial Intelligence and War of the Worlds 159

10 Smart Post-9/11 Narratives - From Defining Ur-Narratives Forrest Gump and Fight Club to Three Kings and United 93 176

11 Conclusions and Future Research 199.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230282773

0230282776

OCLC:

779263925

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