Film and stereotype : a challenge for cinema and theory / Jorg Schweinitz ; translated by Laura Schleussner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schweinitz, Jörg.

Series:

Film and culture.

Film and culture

Standardized Title:

Film und Stereotyp. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures.

Social psychology in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (381 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Since the early days of film, critics and theorists have debated the value of formula, cliché, conventional imagery, and recurring narrative patterns of reduced complexity. The high noon showdown or last-minute rescue, the lonely woman standing in the window or two lovers saying goodbye in the rain-many films rely on these scenes, and audiences have come to expect them. Outlining a comprehensive theory of film stereotype, a device as functionally important to film narrative as it is problematic, Jörg Schweinitz builds an overlooked critical history from the 1920's to today.Drawing on theories

Contents:

Introduction

Stereotype theory: concepts, perspectives, and controversies. The stereotype in psychology and the humanities

Some aspects and levels of stereotypization in film

The intellectual viewpoint versus the stereotype in mass culture

A discourse history: the topic of the "stereotype" throughout film theory

Prelude : Walther Rathenau's cultural criticism, Hugo Munsterberg's Euphoric

Concept of film as art, and the neglect of the stereotype

Bela Balazs's new visual culture, the tradition of linguistic skepticism, and Robert Musil's notion of the "formulaic"

The readymade products of the fantasy machine : Rudolf Arnheim, Rene Fulop-Miller, and the discourse on the "standardization" of film

The stereotype as intelligible form : Cohen-Seat, Morin, and semiology

Irony and transfiguration : the postmodern view of the stereotype

Film analysis : critique and transfiguration-three case studies

Enjoying the stereotype and intense double-play acting : the performance of Jennifer Jason Leigh in the Hudsucker proxy

Epilogue.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography.

ISBN:

9786613094001

9781283094009

1283094002

9780231525213

0231525214

OCLC:

818854311