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The product is a hardcover textbook titled "Film Theory and Contemporary Hollywood Movies" by author Warren Buckland. Published by Routledge in 2009, this book falls under the subject areas of social science and performing arts, specifically focusing on film theory and contemporary Hollywood movies. With 358 pages, this textbook is part of the AFI Film Readers Series and is written in English. It delves into the general study of film, media studies, and film history & criticism, making it a valuable resource for those interested in the film industry.

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PublisherRoutledge

ISBN-100415962617

ISBN-139780415962612

eBay Product ID (ePID)109051481

Product Key Features

Number of Pages358 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameFilm Theory and Contemporary Hollywood Movies

SubjectFilm / General, Media Studies, Film / History & Criticism

Publication Year2009

TypeTextbook

AuthorWarren Buckland

Subject AreaPerforming Arts, Social Science

SeriesAfi Film Readers Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight21.7 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.5 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2008-043558

Reviews"this is an audacious, thoughtful volume that demands close attention...Highly recommended." -CHOICE

Dewey Edition22

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal791.430973

Table Of ContentIntroduction, Warren Buckland Part One: New Practices, New Aesthetics 1. New Hollywood, New Millennium, Thomas Schatz 2. The Supernatural in Neo-Baroque Hollywood, Sean Cubitt 3. Man without a Movie Camera--Movies without Men: Towards a Posthumanist Cinema? William Brown 4. Movie-games and Game-movies: Towards an Aesthetic of Transmediality, Douglas Brown and Tanya Krzywinska 5. Saw Heard: Musical Sound Design in Contemporary Cinema, K.J. Donnelly 6. The Shape of 1999: The Stylistics of American Movies at the End of the Century, Barry Salt 7. Tales of Epiphany and Entropy: Paranarrative Worlds on YouTube, Thomas Elsaesser Part Two: Feminism, Philosophy, and Queer Theory 8. Reformulating the Symbolic Universe: Kill Bill and Tarantino's Transcultural Imaginary, Sasa Vojkovic´ 9. (Broke)back to the Mainstream: Queer Theory and Queer Cinemas Today, Harry M. Benshoff 10. Demystifying Deleuze: French Philosophy Meets Contemporary US Cinema, David Martin-Jones Part Three: Rethinking Affects, Narration, Fantasy, and Realism 11. Trauma, Pleasure, and Emotion in the Viewing of Titanic: A Cognitive Approach, Carl Plantinga 12. Mementos of Contemporary American Cinema: Identifying and Responding to the Unreliable Narrator in the Movie Theater, Volker Ferenz 13. Fantasy Audiences versus Fantasy Audiences, Martin Barker 14. "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 Notes on Contributors Index

SynopsisFilm theory no longer gets top billing or plays a starring role in film studies today, as critics proclaim that theory is dead and we are living in a post-theory moment. While theory may be out of the limelight, it remains an essential key to understanding the full complexity of cinema, one that should not be so easily discounted or discarded. In this volume, contributors explore recent popular movies through the lens of film theory, beginning with industrial-economic analysis before moving into a predominately aesthetic and interpretive framework. The Hollywood films discussed cover a wide range from 300 to Fifty First Dates, from Brokeback Mountain to Lord of the Rings, from Spider-Man 3 to Fahrenheit 9/11, from Saw to Raiders of the Lost Ark, and much more. Individual essays consider such topics as the rules that govern new blockbuster franchises, the 'posthumanist realism' of digital cinema, video game adaptations, increasingly restricted stylistic norms, the spatial stories of social networks like YouTube, the mainstreaming of queer culture, and the cognitive paradox behind enjoyable viewing of traumatic events onscreen. With its cast of international film scholars, Film Theory and Contemporary Hollywood Movies demonstrates the remarkable contributions theory can offer to film studies and moviegoers alike., Film theory no longer gets top billing or plays a starring role in film studies today, as critics proclaim that theory is dead and we are living in a post-theory moment. While theory may be out of the limelight, it remains an essential key to understanding the full complexity of cinema, one that should not be so easily discounted or discarded. In this volume, contributors explore recent popular movies through the lens of film theory, beginning with industrial-economic analysis before moving into a predominately aesthetic and interpretive framework. The Hollywood films discussed cover a wide range from 300 to Fifty First Dates , from Brokeback Mountain to Lord of the Rings , from Spider-Man 3 to Fahrenheit 9/11 , from Saw to Raiders of the Lost Ark , and much more. Individual essays consider such topics as the rules that govern new blockbuster franchises, the 'posthumanist realism' of digital cinema, video game adaptations, increasingly restricted stylistic norms, the spatial stories of social networks like YouTube, the mainstreaming of queer culture, and the cognitive paradox behind enjoyable viewing of traumatic events onscreen. With its cast of international film scholars, Film Theory and Contemporary Hollywood Movies demonstrates the remarkable contributions theory can offer to film studies and moviegoers alike.

LC Classification NumberPN1995.F4667 2009