Film at the Intersection of High and Mass Culture - Brossura

Coates, Paul

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0521107911 ISBN 13: 9780521107914

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Riassunto

Film at the Intersection of High and Mass Culture analyses the contradictions and interaction between high and low art, with particular reference to Hollywood and European cinema. Written in the essayistic speculative tradition of Walter Benjamin and Thedor Adorno, this study also includes analyses of several key films of the 1980s. Tracing the boundaries of such genres as film noir, science fiction and melodrama, it demonstrates how these genres were radically expanded by such film makers as Neil Jordan, Chris Marker and Georges Franju. This work also reflects on kitsch, the star system, racial and gender stereotypes and the nature of audience participation. While defining the conditions under which the symbiotic relationship between high and mass culture can be cross-fertilising, the study stresses their inevitably contradictory characteristics.

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Film at the Intersection of High and Mass Culture analyses the contradictions and interaction between high and low art, with particular reference to Hollywood and European cinema. Written in the essayistic speculative tradition of Walter Benjamin and Thedor Adorno, this study also includes analyses of several key films of the 1980s.

Contenuti:

Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Kitsch, art and the audience; Part I. Getting in on the act; Part II. Genres; Part III. Dark continents; Part IV. Lost in the stars; Part V. Lucid Dreams; Appendices A-C; Notes; Index.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0521107911
• ISBN 13: 9780521107914
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224