American smart cinema
by Perkins, Claire, (Claire Elizabeth)
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 …
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- Full title :American smart cinema / Claire Perkins.
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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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- Publication Date:c2012.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Edinburgh University Press
- Place of Publication:Edinburgh
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:c2012.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (193 p.).
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1299105769, 9781299105768, 9780748640744, 0748640746, 9780748646548, 074864654X
- oclc:on1303370488
- LC Classification:PN1993.5.U6
- Dewey Decimal:791.430973090511
Table of Contents
COVER; Copyright; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; TRADITIONS IN WORLD CINEMA; INTRODUCTION; 1. AUTHORSHIP: WHIT STILLMAN'S 'YUPPIE' TRILOGY, FLIRT, ADAPTATION; 2. NARRATIVE: THE SQUID AND THE WHALE, THE SAFETY OF OBJECTS, PALINDROMES; 3. MELODRAMA: THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU, THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS; 4. MUSIC: SIMPLE MEN, MAGNOLIA, GHOST WORLD; 5. SUBURBIA AND UTOPIA: HAPPINESS, YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS, THE CHUMSCRUBBER, DONNIE DARKO; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
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