Film theory & contemporary Hollywood movies
By: edited by Warren Buckland.
Contributors: Buckland, Warren.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780415962612; 9780415962629; 9780203030769
Subjects: Motion pictures -- Philosophy; Motion pictures -- United States
Other titles: Film theory and contemporary Hollywood movies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: New Hollywood, new millenium. New Hollywood, new millennium / Thomas Schatz; title: The supernatural in neo-baroque Hollywood / Sean Cubitt; title: Man without a movie camera ? movies without men: towards a posthumanist cinema? / William Brown; title: Movie-games and game-movies: towards an aesthetics of transmediality / Douglas Brown and Tanya Krzywinska; title: Saw heard: musical sound design in contemporary cinema / K.J. Donnelly; title: The shape of 1999: the stylistics of American movies at the end of the Century / Barry Salt; title: Tales of epiphany and entropy: paranarrative worlds on YouTube / Thomas Elsaesser; title: Feminism, philosophy, and queer theory. Reformulating the symbolic universe: Kill Bill and Tarantino's transcultural imaginary / Sa'a Vojkovi'; title: (Broke)back to the mainstream: queer theory and queer cinemas today / Harry M. Benshoff; title: Demystifying Deleuze: French philosophy meets contemporary US cinema / David Martin-Jones; title: Rethinking affects, narration, fantasy, and realism. Rethinking affects, narration, fantasy, and realism. trauma, pleasure, and emotion in the viewing of Titanic: a cognitive approach / Carl Plantinga; title: Mementos of contemporary American cinema: identifying and responding to the unreliable narrator in the movie theatre / Volker Ferenz; title: Fantasy audiences versus fantasy audiences / Martin Barker; title: What is there really in the world?? forms of theory, evidence and truth in Fahrenheit 9/11: a philosophical and intuitionist realist approach / Ian aitken.