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Author : Chris Holmlund
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780813543666
Films discussed include Terminator 2, The matrix, Home alone, Jurassic Park, Pulp fiction, Boys don't cry, Toy story and Clueless.
Author : Chris Holmlund
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813545783
With the U.S. economy booming under President Bill Clinton and the cold war finally over, many Americans experienced peace and prosperity in the nineties. Digital technologies gained popularity, with nearly one billion people online by the end of the decade. The film industry wondered what the effect on cinema would be. The essays in American Cinema of the 1990s examine the big-budget blockbusters and critically acclaimed independent films that defined the decade. The 1990s' most popular genre, action, channeled anxieties about global threats such as AIDS and foreign terrorist attacks into escapist entertainment movies. Horror films and thrillers were on the rise, but family-friendly pictures and feel-good romances netted big audiences too. Meanwhile, independent films captured hearts, engaged minds, and invaded Hollywood: by decade's end every studio boasted its own "art film" affiliate.
Author : Christine Holmlund
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0213543656
Author : Chris Holmlund
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 1780347855
The essays in American Cinema of the 1990s examine the big-budget blockbusters and critically acclaimed independent films that defined the decade.
Author : J. David Slocum
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135204907
American cinema has always been violent, and never more so than now: exploding heads, buses that blow up if they stop, racial attacks, and general mayhem. From slapstick's comic violence to film noir, from silent cinema to Tarantino, violence has been an integral part of America on screen. This new volume in a successful series analyzes violence, examining its nature, its effects, and its cinematic and social meaning.
Author : J. Nilsson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137300997
This study examines how a particular selection of films turned American cultural material of the 1990s into satirical experiences for viewers and finds that there are elements of resistance to norms and conventions in politics, to mainstream news channels and Hollywood, and to official American history already embedded in the culture.
Author : Alexandra West
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476670645
Many critics and fans refer to the 1990s as the decade that horror forgot, with few notable entries in the genre. Yet horror went mainstream in the '90s by speaking to the anxieties of American youth during one of the country's most prosperous eras. No longer were films made on low budgets and dependent on devotees for success. Horror found its way onto magazine covers, fashion ads and CD soundtrack covers. "Girl power" feminism and a growing distaste for consumerism defined an audience that both embraced and rejected the commercial appeal of these films. This in-depth study examines the youth subculture and politics of the era, focusing on such films as Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992), Scream (1996), I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), Idle Hands (1999) and Cherry Falls (2000).
Author : Randy Laist
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781628920819
Hyperreality is an Alice-in-Wonderland dimension where copies have no originals, simulation is more real than reality, and living dreams undermine the barriers between imagination and objective experience. The most prominent philosopher of the hyperreal, Jean Baudrillard, formulated his concept of hyperreality throughout the 1980s, but it was not until the 1990s that the end of the Cold War, along with the proliferation of new reality-bending technologies, made hyperreality seem to come true. In the “lost decade” between the fall of the Berlin Wall and 9/11, the nature of reality itself became a source of uncertainty, a psychic condition that has been recognizably recorded by that seismograph of American consciousness, Hollywood cinema. The auteur cinema of the 1970s aimed for gritty realism, and the most prominent feature of Reagan-era cinema was its fantastic unrealism. Clinton-era cinema, however, is characterized by a prevailing mood of hyperrealism, communicated in various ways by such benchmark films as JFK, Pulp Fiction, and The Matrix. The hyperreal cinema of the 1990s conceives of the movie screen as neither a window on a preexisting social reality (realism), nor as a wormhole into a fantastic dream-dimension (escapism), but as an arena in which images and reality exchange masks, blend into one another, and challenge the philosophical premises which differentiate them from one another. Cinema of Simulation: Hyperreal Hollywood in the Long 1990s provides a guided tour through the anxieties and fantasies, reciprocally social and cinematic, which characterize the surreal territory of the hyperreal.
Author : Jon Lewis
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0745318797
In The End of Cinema As We Know It, contributors well known in the 'movie' field talk about the movie industry and look at the variety of new ways we are viewing films. They query whether or not we are getting different, better movies?
Author : M. Keith Booker
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781538130124
One of the most powerful forces in world culture, American cinema has a long and complex history that stretches through more than a century. This history not only includes a legacy of hundreds of important films but also the evolution of the film industry itself, which is in many ways a microcosm of the history of American society. Historical Dictionary of American Cinema, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 600 cross-referenced entries covering people, films, companies, techniques, themes, and subgenres that have made American cinema such a vital part of world culture.
Author : Paul A. Schroeder Rodríguez,Paul A. Schroeder
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520288638
Conventional silent cinema -- Avant-garde silent cinema -- Transition to sound -- Birth and growth of an industry -- Crisis and decline of studio cinema -- Neorealism and art cinema -- New Latin American cinema's militant phase -- New Latin American cinema's Neobaroque phase -- Collapse and rebirth of an industry -- Latin American cinema in the twenty-first century -- Conclusion : a triangulated cinema -- Appendix : discourses of modernity in Latin America
Author : Colin Harrison
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780748629664
American Culture in the 1990s focuses on the dramaticcultural transformations of the last decade of the millennium. Lodgedbetween the fall of Communism and the outbreak of the War on Terror, the1990s was witness to America's expanding influence across the world but alsoa period of anxiety and social conflict. National traumas such as the LosAngeles riots, the Oklahoma City bombing and the impeachment of PresidentClinton lend an apocalyptic air to the decade, but the book looks beyondthis to a wider context to identify new voices emerging in the nation.Thisis one of the first attempts to bring together developments taking placeacross a range of different fields: from Microsoft to the Internet, fromblank fiction to gangsta rap, from abject art to new independent cinema,and from postfeminism to posthumanism. Students of American culture andgeneral readers will find this a lively and illuminating introduction to acomplex and immensely varied decade.Key Features*3 case studies per chapterfeaturing key texts, genres, writers and artists*Chronology of 1990sAmerican Culture*Bibliographies for each chapter*18 black and whiteillustrations
Author : Timothy Corrigan
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813553238
The decade from 2000 to 2009 is framed, at one end, by the traumatic catastrophe of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and, at the other, by the election of the first African American president of the United States. In between, the United States and the world witnessed the rapid expansion of new media and the Internet, such natural disasters as Hurricane Katrina, political uprisings around the world, and a massive meltdown of world economies. Amid these crises and revolutions, American films responded in multiple ways, sometimes directly reflecting these turbulent times, and sometimes indirectly couching history in traditional genres and stories. In American Cinema of the 2000s, essays from ten top film scholars examine such popular series as the groundbreaking Matrix films and the gripping adventures of former CIA covert operative Jason Bourne; new, offbeat films like Juno; and the resurgence of documentaries like Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11. Each essay demonstrates the complex ways in which American culture and American cinema are bound together in subtle and challenging ways.
Author : Williams , Linda Ruth,Hammond , Michael
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780335218318
This is a comprehensive introduction to post-classical American film. Covering American cinema since 1960, the text looks at both Hollywood and non-mainstream cinema.
Author : Robert Murphy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838714789
This work examines major box office hits like 'The Full Monty' as well as critically acclaimed films like 'Under the Skin'. It explores the role of distribution and exhibition, the Americanisation of British film culture, Hollywood and Europe, changing representations of sexuality and ethnicity.