Film Genre 2000

New Critical Essays (livre en anglais)

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Type: Essais
Sujet: Genre > Tous les genres
Mots Clés: Etats-Unis, genre
Année d'édition: 2000
Editeur: State University of New York Press
Collection: SUNY series, Cultural Studies in Cinema/Video
Langue: anglais

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Broché • 280 pages
16 x 24 cm

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0-7914-4514-3
978-0-7914-4514-3

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Description de l'ouvrage :
New essays by prominent film scholars address recent developments in American genre filmmaking.

Covering over 100 feature films in critical depth and detail, this reader provides an excellent introduction to American genre filmmaking since 1990. These previously unpublished essays by prominent film scholars each address a different film genre—from science fiction to romance to '90s noir—as well as the ways in which genre filmmaking as a whole has been changed by the new technologies and market forces that are shaping the future of cinema.

One of the peculiar aspects of recent American genre filmmaking is its apparent facelessness, its desire to subsume itself into the larger framework of genre cinema, and not to identify each film as a unique exemplar. What this book argues, among other things, is that the implicit message in contemporary genre films is rarely that which is signified by a film's external or even internal narrative structure. What drives the thematic and structural concerns of recent genre cinema is the recovery of initial investment, made all the more pressing by the fact that each film released theatrically now represents an investment of many millions of dollars.

For better or worse, American genre cinema dominates the globe. The Hollywood genre film has become one of America's most prolific and profitable social exports. These contemporary genre films all seek to further the values of their nation of origin as they journey through the world on film, videotape, DVDs, and television; it is the pervasive influence, and numerous subjects, of these films that are analyzed here.

Contributors include Heather Addison, Chuck Berg, Ton Conley, David M. Desser, Wheeler Winston Dixon, Marc Miller, Catherine Preston, Stephen Prince, David Sanjek, Mark A. Reid, John Tibbets, Jim Welsh, and Ron Wilson.

À propos de l'auteur :
Wheeler Winston Dixon is Chairperson of the Film Studies Program and Professor of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. He is the author of many books, including most recently The Second Century of Cinema: The Past and Future of the Moving Image; The Exploding Eye: A Re-Visionary History of 1960s American Experimental Cinema; The Films of Jean-Luc Godard; and The Transparency of Spectacle: Meditations on the Moving Image, all published by SUNY Press.

Revue de Presse :
"Tremendously enjoyable. These essays are written to engage readers in a thoughtful and thought-provoking dialogue on popular cinema. Dixon's keen decision to mingle divergent and complementary voices invites an active and participatory reading experience. " —Lalumiere, Claude, January Magazine, April 2000

"The volume presents a judicious, well-balanced collection, partly revisionist but not excessively so, which illuminates Hollywood films in the nineties. I found the prose evocative and graphic. These writers have boiled down the many facets of nineties' movies to something of 'intensity, lucidity, brevity, beauty,' to borrow from Henry James. " — Edward T. Jones, York College of Pennsylvania

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