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9780415905756

Film Theory Goes to the Movies

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415905756

  • ISBN10:

    0415905753

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1992-12-01
  • Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

Film Theory Goes to the Moviesfills the gap in film theory literature which has failed to analyze high-grossing blockbusters. The contributors in this volume, however, discuss such popular films as TheSilence of the Lambs, Dances With Wolves, Terminator II,Pretty Woman, Truth or Dare, Mystery Train, and JungleFever. They employ a variety of critical approaches, from industry analysis to reception study, to close readings informed by feminist, deconstructive and postmodernist theory, as well as recent developments in African American and gay and lesbian criticism. An important introduction to contemporary Hollywood, this anthology will be of interest to those involved in the fields of film theory, literary theory, popular culture, and women's studies.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix
Introduction 1(7)
Jim Collins
Hilary Radner
Ava Preacher Collins
The New Hollywood
8(29)
Thomas Schatz
Reclaiming the Social: Pedagogy, Resistance, and Politics in Celluloid Culture
37(19)
Henry A. Giroux
Pretty Is as Pretty Does: Free Enterprise and the Marriage Plot
56(21)
Hilary Radner
The Unauthorized Auteur Today
77(9)
Dudley Andrew
Loose Canons: Constructing Cultural Traditions Inside and Outside the Academy
86(17)
Ava Preacher Collins
Spectacles of Death: Identification, Reflexivity, and Contemporary Horror
103(17)
Jeffrey Sconce
Hardware and Hardbodies, What Do Women Want?: A Reading of Thelma and Louise
120(9)
Sharon Willis
Thelma and Louise and the Cultural Generation of the New Butch-Femme
129(13)
Cathy Griggers
Taboos and Totems: Cultural Meanings of The Silence of the Lambs
142(13)
Janet Staiger
The Powers of Seeing and Being Seen: Truth or Dare and Paris is Burning
155(15)
Ann Cvetkovich
Spike Lee and the Fever in the Racial Jungle
170(12)
Ed Guerrero
Split Skins: Female Agency and Bodily Mutilation in The Little Mermaid
182(14)
Susan White
The Big Switch: Hollywood Masculinity in the Nineties
196(13)
Susan Jeffords
Between Apocalypse and Redemption: John Singleton's Boyz N The Hood
209(18)
Michael Eric Dyson
Making Cyborgs, Making Humans: Of Terminators and Blade Runners
227(15)
Forest Pyle
Genericity in the Nineties: Eclectic Irony and the New Sincerity
242(23)
Jim Collins
Notes 265(30)
List of Contributors 295

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