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Author |
: Stella Bruzzi |
Publisher |
: Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages |
: 160 |
Release |
: 2013-09-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780748676194 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0748676198 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Men's Cinema by : Stella Bruzzi
Men's Cinema offers a fresh theorisation of men in Hollywood cinema via a theoretical discussion of definitions of masculinity and the close textual analysis of classic and contemporary films. Through an examination of mise-en-scene, Men's Cinema moves beyond discussions of representation and narrative to an exploration of the physical or instinctive effects of cinema and how we are invited to engage with, desire or identify with Hollywood's vision of men and masculinity. By delineating how Hollywood has built up and refined the language of men's cinema through a series of recurrent, refined tropes, this book critically explores masculinity and the concept of a male aesthetic within film.Films discussed include: The Deer Hunter, Dirty Harry, Goodfellas, Inception, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, Once Upon a Time in the West, Point Break, Raging Bull, Rebel Without A Cause, Reservoir Dogs, Sherlock Holmes, There's Always Tomorrow, The Wild Bunch.
Author |
: Gene D. Phillips |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 205 |
Release |
: 2014-09-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781442230767 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1442230762 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gangsters and G-Men on Screen by : Gene D. Phillips
While the gangster film may have enjoyed its heyday in the 1930s and ’40s, it has remained a movie staple for almost as long as cinema has existed. From the early films of Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, and Edward G. Robinson to modern versions like Bugsy, Public Enemies, and Gangster Squad, such films capture the brutality of mobs and their leaders. In Gangsters and G-Men on Screen: Crime Cinema Then and Now, Gene D. Phillips revisits some of the most popular and iconic representations of the genre. While this volume offers new perspectives on some established classics—usual suspects like Little Caesar, Bonnie and Clyde, and The Godfather Part II—Phillips also calls attention to some of the unheralded but no less worthy films and filmmakers that represent the genre. Expanding the viewer’s notion of what constitutes a gangster film, Phillips offers such unusual choices as You Only Live Once, Key Largo, The Lady from Shanghai, and even the 1949 version of The Great Gatsby. Also included in this examination are more recent ventures, such as modern classics The Grifters and Martin Scorsese’s The Departed. In his analyses, Phillips draws on a number of sources, including personal interviews with directors and other artists and technicians associated with the films he discusses. Of interest to film historians and scholars, Gangsters and G-Men on Screen will also appeal to anyone who wants to better understand the films that represent an important contribution to crime cinema.
Author |
: Claire Sisco King |
Publisher |
: Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages |
: 235 |
Release |
: 2011-11-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780813552064 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0813552060 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Washed in Blood by : Claire Sisco King
Will Smith in I Am Legend. Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic. Charlton Heston in just about everything. Viewers of Hollywood action films are no doubt familiar with the sacrificial victim-hero, the male protagonist who nobly gives up his life so that others may be saved. Washed in Blood argues that such sacrificial films are especially prominent in eras when the nation—and American manhood—is thought to be in crisis. The sacrificial victim-hero, continually imperiled and frequently exhibiting classic symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, thus bears the trauma of the nation. Claire Sisco King offers an in-depth study of three prominent cycles of Hollywood films that follow the sacrificial narrative: the early–to–mid 1970s, the mid–to–late 1990s, and the mid–to–late 2000s. From Vietnam-era disaster movies to post-9/11 apocalyptic thrillers, she examines how each film represents traumatized American masculinity and national identity. What she uncovers is a cinematic tendency to position straight white men as America’s most valuable citizens—and its noblest victims.
Author |
: D. Ging |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 263 |
Release |
: 2012-12-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781137291936 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1137291931 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis Men and Masculinities in Irish Cinema by : D. Ging
Spanning a broad trajectory, from the New Gaelic Man of post-independence Ireland to the slick urban gangsters of contemporary productions, this study traces a significant shift from idealistic images of Irish manhood to a much more diverse and gender-politically ambiguous range of male identities on the Irish screen.
Author |
: Ewa Mazierska |
Publisher |
: Berghahn Books |
Total Pages |
: 260 |
Release |
: 2008-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781782382164 |
ISBN-13 |
: 178238216X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Masculinities in Polish, Czech and Slovak Cinema by : Ewa Mazierska
Gender, especially masculinity, is a perspective rarely applied in discourses on cinema of Eastern/Central Europe. Masculinities in Polish, Czech and Slovak Cinema exposes an English-speaking audience to a large proportion of this region’s cinema that previously remained unknown, focusing on the relationship between representation of masculinity and nationality in the films of two and later three countries: Poland, Czechoslovakia/the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The objective of the book is to discuss the main types of men populating Polish, Czech and Slovak films: that of soldier, father, heterosexual and homosexual lover, against a rich political, social and cultural background. Czech, Slovak and Polish cinema appear to provide excellent material for comparison as they were produced in neighbouring countries which for over forty years endured a similar political system – state socialism.
Author |
: Laura Mulvey |
Publisher |
: Koenig Books |
Total Pages |
: 64 |
Release |
: 2016 |
ISBN-10 |
: 3863359658 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783863359652 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Laura Mulvey 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema' 1975 by : Laura Mulvey
Since it first appeared in Screen in 1975, Laura Mulvey's essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" has been an enduring point of reference for artists, filmmakers, writers and theorists. Mulvey's compelling polemical analysis of visual pleasure has provoked and encouraged others to take positions, challenge preconceived ideas and produce new works that owe their possibility to the generative qualities of this key essay. In this book, the celebrated New York-based video artist Rachel Rose (born 1986) has produced an innovative work that extends and adds to the essay's frame of reference. Drawing on 18th- and 19th-century fairy tales, and observing how their flat narratives matched the flatness of their depictions, Rose created collages that connect these pre-cinematic illustrations to what Mulvey describes in her essay--cinema flattening sexuality into visuality.
Author |
: Geneviève Sellier |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 280 |
Release |
: 2008-03-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780822388975 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0822388979 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis Masculine Singular by : Geneviève Sellier
Masculine Singular is an original interpretation of French New Wave cinema by one of France’s leading feminist film scholars. While most criticism of the New Wave has concentrated on the filmmakers and their films, Geneviève Sellier focuses on the social and cultural turbulence of the cinema’s formative years, from 1957 to 1962. The New Wave filmmakers were members of a young generation emerging on the French cultural scene, eager to acquire sexual and economic freedom. Almost all of them were men, and they “wrote” in the masculine first-person singular, often using male protagonists as stand-ins for themselves. In their films, they explored relations between men and women, and they expressed ambivalence about the new liberated woman. Sellier argues that gender relations and the construction of sexual identities were the primary subject of New Wave cinema. Sellier draws on sociological surveys, box office data, and popular magazines of the period, as well as analyses of specific New Wave films. She examines the development of the New Wave movement, its sociocultural and economic context, and the popular and critical reception of such well-known films as Jules et Jim and Hiroshima mon amour. In light of the filmmakers’ focus on gender relations, Sellier reflects on the careers of New Wave’s iconic female stars, including Jeanne Moreau and Brigitte Bardot. Sellier’s thorough exploration of early New Wave cinema culminates in her contention that its principal legacy—the triumph of a certain kind of cinephilic discourse and of an “auteur theory” recognizing the director as artist—came at a steep price: creativity was reduced to a formalist game, and affirmation of New Wave cinema’s modernity was accompanied by an association of creativity with masculinity.
Author |
: Peter H. Brothers |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 282 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1449027717 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781449027711 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mushroom Clouds and Mushroom Men by : Peter H. Brothers
Here, for the first time in English print, is the inspiring story of a humble and soft-spoken man who became one of the most-prolific directors in the history of fantasy films. Raised in a primitive Japanese village by a Buddhist monk, Ishiro Honda fell in love with films at a young age and soon enrolled in film school with the intent of one day becoming a director. Called to enlist in the Imperial Japanese Army druing World War II, he returned with a knowledge of the futility of war and a dread of the atomic age. A dedicated craftsman who directed over 80 films during a remarkable 60-plus year career, Honda is undeservedly remembered mostly as the "greatest director" of the famous Japanese monster film series; however, he was in fact much more. Utelizing a wide-variety of source material never before assembled into one volume, Mushroom Clouds and Mushroom Men is an objective critical analysis and definitve study of a man whose fantasy films -- when seen in their original versions -- are "beautiful nightmares" of quality and subtext which transcend the visceral thrill of watching monsters destroying cities. Honda's admirers include George Lucas, Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg and his films are masterpieces of entertainment that have enthralled audiences for generations . . . and will for generations to come.
Author |
: D. Ging |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 239 |
Release |
: 2012-12-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781137291936 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1137291931 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis Men and Masculinities in Irish Cinema by : D. Ging
Spanning a broad trajectory, from the New Gaelic Man of post-independence Ireland to the slick urban gangsters of contemporary productions, this study traces a significant shift from idealistic images of Irish manhood to a much more diverse and gender-politically ambiguous range of male identities on the Irish screen.
Author |
: Timothy Shary |
Publisher |
: Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages |
: 384 |
Release |
: 2012-12-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780814338445 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0814338445 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Millennial Masculinity by : Timothy Shary
Film and television scholars as well as readers interested in gender and sexuality in film will appreciate this timely collection.