American Smart Cinema - Rilegato

Perkins, Claire

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ISBN 10: 0748640746 ISBN 13: 9780748640744

Casa editrice: Edinburgh Univ Pr, 2011

Riassunto

American Smart Cinema examines a contemporary type of US filmmaking that exists at the intersection of mainstream, art and independent cinema and often gives rise to absurd, darkly comic and nihilistic effects. Connecting the 'smart' sensibility to issues of expressive irony, generational divide and therapeutic culture, this bold new book describes a recent critical tradition in commercial-independent American filmmaking by exploring the unstable tone and dysfunctional themes of such films as The Royal Tenenbaums, Adaptation, The Squid and the Whale, Palindromes, The Last Days of Disco, Flirt, Ghost World, Your Friends and Neighbors, Donnie Darko and The Savages. Acknowledging the loaded forms of expression employed by these films, American Smart Cinema provides new directions for their study by discussing the self-conscious approach taken to film historical discourses of authorship, narrative and genre. Examining the smart film's taste for 'blank' style and issues of middle-class identity, the book provides a comprehensive account of smart cinema as an aesthetic category while also considering the cultural and political factors that have guaranteed it critical and popular success.

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Recensione:

A thought-provoking analysis of the thematic and formal qualities of a significant series of tendencies in American cinema beyond the mainstream, mixing detailed readings of individual films with consideration of broader cultural contexts in which they can be understood. --Professor Geoff King

L'autore:

Claire Perkins is Assistant Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the Monash University.

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• Editore: Edinburgh Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0748640746
• ISBN 13: 9780748640744
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 182