Brokeback Mountain - Brossura

Needham, Gary

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0748633839 ISBN 13: 9780748633838

Casa editrice: Edinburgh Univ Pr, 2010

Riassunto

This series of books discusses contemporary American films that have found commercial success but which have not been constrained by the formal and ideological parameters of mainstream Hollywood cinema. Each volume explores a specific film and combines original research with clearly defined classroom-orientated frameworks of film analysis.

Upon its release in zoos, Brokeback Mountain became a major cultural event and a milestone in independent American filmmaking. Based on the short story by Annie Proulx and directed by Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain situated a love story between two closeted cowboys at the heart of American mythology, film spectatorship and genre. Brokeback Mountain offered an independent and queer revision of the conventions and clichTs of the western and the melodrama through a studied exploration of homophobia and the closet. This book examines Brokeback Mountain in relation to indie cinema, genre, spectatorship, editing, and homosexuality. In doing so, it brings film studies and queer theory into dialogue with one another and explains the importance of Brokeback Mountain as both a contemporary independent and queer film.

Key Features

Provides an overview of Focus Features as a hybrid company operating across both the mainstream and independent cinema sectors

Analyses Brokeback Mountain as a western and places it within an enduring historical and cultural context of relations between homosexuality and the genre

Analyses Brokeback Mountain as a melodrama examining the film's relationship to concepts of pathos, backward feeling and passivity

Proposes a new way of thinking about gay spectatorship that takes into account how editing and cruising relate to one another

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Gary Needham is Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Nottingham Trent University.

Product Description:

Book by Needham Gary

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Edinburgh Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0748633839
• ISBN 13: 9780748633838
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 140