Darkness in the Bliss-Out: A Reconsideration of the Films of Steven Spielberg - Rilegato

Kendrick, James

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ISBN 10: 1441188959 ISBN 13: 9781441188953

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury USA Academic, 2014

Riassunto

While there has been a significant outpouring of scholarship on Steven Spielberg over the past decade, his films are still frequently discussed as being paternalistic, escapist, and reliant on uncomplicated emotions and complicated special effects. Even those who view his work favorably often see it as essentially optimistic, reassuring, and conservative. James Kendrick takes an alternate view of Spielberg's cinema and proposes that his films—even the most popular ones that seem to trade in easy answers and comforting, reassuring notions of cohesion and narrative resolution—are significantly darker and more emotionally and ideologically complex than they are routinely given credit for.

Darkness in the Bliss-Out demonstrates, through close analysis of a wide range of Spielberg's films, that they are only reassuring on the surface, and that their depths embody a complex and sometimes contradictory view of the human condition.

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L'autore:

James Kendrick is an Associate Professor of Film and Digital Media at Baylor University, USA. He is the author of Hollywood Bloodshed: Violence in 1980s American Cinema (2009) and Film Violence: History, Ideology, Genre (2009), as well as numerous book chapters and journal articles. He is also the film and video critic for QNetwork.com.

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• Editore: Bloomsbury USA Academic
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1441188959
• ISBN 13: 9781441188953
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 225