
New Hollywood, New Aesthetics. New Hollywood, New Millennium / Thomas Schatz -- The Supernatural In Neo-baroque Hollywood / Sean Cubitt -- Man Without A Movie Camera, Movies Without Men: Towards A Posthumanist Cinema? / William Brown -- Movie-games And Game-movies: Towards An Aesthetics Of Transmediality / Douglas Brown And Tanya Krzywinska -- Saw Heard: Musical Sound Design In Contemporary Cinema / K.j. Donnelly -- The Shape Of 1999: The Stylistics Of American Movies At The End Of The Century / Barry Salt -- Tales Of Epiphany And Entropy: Paranarrative Worlds On Youtube / Thomas Elsaesser -- Feminism, Philosophy, And Queer Theory. Reformulating The Symbolic Universe: Kill Bill And Tarantino's Transcultural Imaginary / Saša Vojković -- (broke)back To The Mainstream: Queer Theory And Queer Cinemas Today / Harry M. Benshoff -- Demystifying Deleuze: French Philosophy Meets Contemporary U.s. Cinema / David Martin-jones -- Rethinking Affects, Narration, Fantasy, And Realism. Trauma, Pleasure, And Emotion In The Viewing Of Titanic: A Cognitive Approach / Carl Plantinga -- Mementos Of Contemporary American Cinema: Identifying And Responding To The Unreliable Narrator In The Movie Theater / Volker Ferenz -- Fantasy Audiences Versus Fantasy Audiences / Martin Barker -- 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. Edited By Warren Buckland. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.
This collection investigates the intersection of contemporary Hollywood production and evolving theoretical frameworks in the digital age. Edited by Warren Buckland, the volume compiles essays from various scholars to analyze how modern cinema interacts with philosophy, cognitive science, and transmedia aesthetics. The contributors utilize diverse methodologies, ranging from cognitive film theory to queer theory and Deleuzian philosophy, to interpret the shifting landscape of American movies at the turn of the millennium.
What You Will Find
Scholars and students of film studies frequently cite this volume as a comprehensive resource for understanding the theoretical shifts in post-1990s American cinema. The text is noted for its academic density and its successful integration of diverse critical methodologies to address complex cinematic phenomena.
Page Count:
355
Publication Date:
2009-01-01
Publisher:
Routledge
ISBN-10:
0203030761
ISBN-13:
9780203030769
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