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Author: Williams , Linda Ruth
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Published: 2006-05-01
Total Pages: 582
ISBN-13: 0335218318
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a comprehensive introduction to post-classical American film. Covering American cinema since 1960, the text looks at both Hollywood and non-mainstream cinema.
Author: Timothy Shary
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2009-01-27
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780292774902
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen teenagers began hanging out at the mall in the early 1980s, the movies followed. Multiplex theaters offered teens a wide array of perspectives on the coming-of-age experience, as well as an escape into the alternative worlds of science fiction and horror. Youth films remained a popular and profitable genre through the 1990s, offering teens a place to reflect on their evolving identities from adolescence to adulthood while simultaneously shaping and maintaining those identities. Drawing examples from hundreds of popular and lesser-known youth-themed films, Timothy Shary here offers a comprehensive examination of the representation of teenagers in American cinema in the 1980s and 1990s. He focuses on five subgenres—school, delinquency, horror, science, and romance/sexuality—to explore how they represent teens and their concerns, how these representations change over time, and how youth movies both mirror and shape societal expectations and fears about teen identities and roles. He concludes that while some teen films continue to exploit various notions of youth sexuality and violence, most teen films of the past generation have shown an increasing diversity of adolescent experiences and have been sympathetic to the particular challenges that teens face.
Author: STEVE NEALE
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-04-15
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 1135108765
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive overview of the film industry in Hollywood today, Contemporary Hollywood Cinema brings together leading international cinema scholars to explore the technology, institutions, film makers and movies of contemporary American film making.
Author: Chris Holmlund
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0415254868
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis anthology addresses the salient aesthetic, ideological and economic determinants of independent American cinema over the past three decades.
Author: Timothy Shary
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2012-12-17
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 0814338445
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFilm and television scholars as well as readers interested in gender and sexuality in film will appreciate this timely collection.
Author: Michael Allen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-09-25
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 1317874188
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContemporary U.S. Cinema is a forceful exploration of the tumultuous changes that have dominated the shifting landscape of American film-making over the past three decades. From the explosive release of Easy Rider to the excesses of Heaven's Gate and the comic book figures of Spider-Man, its aim is to examine the economic, social and cultural contexts of mainstream and independent American films. The book divides into nine provocative chapters with material on: the most significant individual film-makers, such as Scorsese, Coppola and Lucas, as well as independent film-makers like Jarmusch and Anders the careers of leading actors of the last thirty years, such as Jack Nicholson, Robert Redford and Julia Roberts, whilst exploring the powerful position of the film star in the modern American film-making process the economics of Contemporary U.S. Cinema with particular reference to the tortuous journey from production, distribution and exhibition of Waterworld and Titanic the artistic influence of foreign film-makers, such as François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, and explores Hollywood's increasing dominance and reliance on the global market genres, sequels and the recent developments in computer-based technologies, using examples from The Godfather I - III, The Matrix, the Star Wars saga and remakes from Shaft to Ocean's Eleven The book is illustrated with stills throughout and includes a bibliography and annotated further reading list.
Author: Deborah Shaw
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780742539150
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis engaging book explores some of the most significant films to emerge from Latin America since 2000, an extraordinary period of international recognition for the region's cinema. Each chapter assesses an individual film, with some contributors considering the reasons for the unprecedented commercial and critical successes of movies such as City of God, The Motorcycle Diaries, Y tu mama tambien, and Nine Queens, while others examine why equally important films failed to break out on the international circuit. Written by leading specialists, the chapters not only offer textual analysis, but also trace the films' social context and production conditions, as well as critical national and transnational issues. Their well-rounded analyses provide a rich picture of the state of contemporary filmmaking in a range of Latin American countries. Nuanced and thought-provoking, the readings in this book will provide invaluable interpretations for students and scholars of Latin American film. Contributions by: Sarah Barrow, Nuala Finnegan, David William Foster, Miraim Haddu, Geoffrey Kantaris, Deborah Shaw, Lisa Shaw, Rob Stone, Else R. P. Vieira, and Claire Williams.
Author: D. Peberdy
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011-07-19
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0230308708
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA lively and engaging study of on-screen and off-screen performances of masculinity, focusing on well-known male actors in American film and popular culture in the 1990s and 2000s. Peberdy examines specific social, cultural, historical and political contexts that have affected age, race, sexuality and fatherhood on screen.
Author: Mia Mask
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-08-21
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 1136308024
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContemporary Black American Cinema offers a fresh collection of essays on African American film, media, and visual culture in the era of global multiculturalism. Integrating theory, history, and criticism, the contributing authors deftly connect interdisciplinary perspectives from American studies, cinema studies, cultural studies, political science, media studies, and Queer theory. This multidisciplinary methodology expands the discursive and interpretive registers of film analysis. From Paul Robeson’s and Sidney Poitier’s star vehicles to Lee Daniels’s directorial forays, these essays address the career legacies of film stars, examine various iterations of Blaxploitation and animation, question the comedic politics of "fat suit" films, and celebrate the innovation of avant-garde and experimental cinema.
Author: Thomas Elsaesser
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002-03
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780340762066
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat are the most appropriate theories & methods for analysing contemporary American cinema? This book examines the assumptions behind a traditional theory of film, distilling a method of analysis from it, then analysing a contemporary movie.
