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Britton on film : the complete film criticism of Andrew Britton / edited by Barry Keith Grant ; with an introduction by Robin Wood.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Britton, Andrew, 1952-1994.
Contributor:
Grant, Barry Keith, 1947-
Series:
Contemporary approaches to film and television series.
Contemporary approaches to film and television series
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Motion pictures.
Motion picture industry.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (571 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2009.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Students and teachers of film studies as well as general readers interested in film and American popular culture will enjoy Britton on Film.
Contents:
Cover
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction by Robin Wood
Part One: Hollywood Cinema
Cary Grant: Comedy and Male Desire
A New Servitude: Bette Davis, Now, Voyager, and the Radicalism of the Woman's Film
The Devil, Probably: The Symbolism of Evil
Sideshows: Hollywood in Vietnam
Blissing Out: The Politics of Reaganite Entertainment
Part Two: Hollywood Movies
Meet Me in St. Louis: Smith, or The Ambiguities
Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound: Text and Countertext
Detour
Notes on Pursued
The Family in The Reckless Moment
Betrayed by Rita Hayworth: Misogyny in The Lady from Shanghai
The Exorcist
Jaws
Mandingo
10
The Great Waldo Pepper
The Other Side of Midnight
Part Three: European Cinema
Sexuality and Power, or the Two Others
Their Finest Hour: Humphrey Jennings and the British Imperial Myth of World War II
Metaphor and Mimesis: Madame de . . .
Thinking about Father: Bernardo Bertolucci
Living Historically: Two Films by Jean-Luc Godard
"Foxed": Fox and His Friends
Part Four: Film and Cultural Theory
In Defense of Criticism
For Interpretation: Notes Against Camp
The Ideology of Screen
The Philosophy of the Pigeonhole: Wisconsin Formalism and "The Classical Style"
The Myth of Postmodernism: The Bourgeois Intelligentsia in the Age of Reagan
Consuming Culture: The Development of a Theoretical Orthodoxy
Invisible Eye
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
Notes:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references (p. 509-519) and index.
ISBN:
9780814335505
0814335500
OCLC:
835415368

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