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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.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Britton, Andrew, 1952-1994.
- 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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