Book Description
Film and television scholars as well as readers interested in gender and sexuality in film will appreciate this timely collection.
Author : Timothy Shary
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 27,35 MB
Release : 2012-12-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0814338445
Film and television scholars as well as readers interested in gender and sexuality in film will appreciate this timely collection.
Author : Maria Fritsche
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,61 MB
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0857459465
Despite the massive influx of Hollywood movies and films from other European countries after World War II, Austrian film continued to be hugely popular with Austrian and German audiences. By examining the decisive role that popular cinema played in the turbulent post-war era, this book provides unique insights into the reconstruction of a disrupted society. Through detailed analysis of the stylistic patterns, narratives and major themes of four popular genres of the time, costume film, Heimatfilm, tourist film and comedy, the book explains how popular cinema helped to shape national identity, smoothed conflicted gender relations and relieved the Austrians from the burden of the Nazi past through celebrating the harmonious, charming, musical Austrian man.
Author : D. Ging
Publisher : Springer
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 35,54 MB
Release : 2012-12-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1137291931
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
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,70 MB
Release : 2008-11-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 178238216X
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 : Scott McKinnon
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 30,72 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Homosexuality
ISBN : 9781783205974
Author : Carol J. Clover
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,42 MB
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0691166293
Examining the popularity of low-budget cinema, particularly slasher, occult, and rape-revenge films, the author argues that, while such films have been traditionally understood as offering only sadistic pleasure to their mostly male audiences, in actuality they align spectators not with the male tormentor but with the females being tormented--particularly the slasher movie's "final girls"--Who endure fear and degradation before rising to save themselves.--Adapted from publisher description.
Author : Andreas Hamburger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 20,40 MB
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0429909950
Women and men in cinema are imaginary constructs created by filmmakers and their audiences. The film-psychoanalytic approach reveals how movies subliminally influence unconscious reception. On the other hand, the movie is embedded in a cultural tradition: Jean Cocteau's film La Belle et la Bete (1946) takes up the classic motif of the animal groom from the story of Cupid and Psyche in Apuleius' The Golden Ass (originally a tale about the stunning momentum of genuine female desire), liberates it from its baroque educational moral (a girl's virtue and prudence will help her to overcome her sexual fears), and turns it into a boyhood story: inside the ugly rascal there is a good, but relatively boring prince - at least in comparison to the monsters of film history. In the seventy years since it was made, La Belle et la Bete has inspired numerous interpretations and has been employed by theorists of all genres and interests.
Author : Robert von Dassanowsky
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 27,86 MB
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1476621470
Austria, the multicultural crossroad of the European continent, has been the genesis of many artistic concepts. Just as late 19th and early 20th century Austria gave influential modernism to the world in the fields of medicine, urban planning, architecture, design, literature, music, and theater, so its film industry created a significant national cinema that seeded talents and concepts internationally. Nevertheless, the value of Austrian cinema to international film has been long obscured. Austria's important bond with American film is also underappreciated because of the lack of accessible English language scholarship on the early careers of Austro-Hollywood artists and on influential developments in Austrian film history. This first comprehensive English survey of Austrian film introduces more than a century of cinema, following the development of the industry chronologically through the nation's various transformations since 1895. Important industry movements, genres and films are highlighted with sociopolitical, cultural and aesthetic details. An analysis of the economic trends that have influenced Austrian film is also provided. The survey considers the directors, actors, producers, writers, cinematographers, editors, composers and other film artists who have been essential to the development and influence of Austrian cinema. The closing chapter anticipates new faces of the Austrian film industry in the 21st century.
Author : Derek Nystrom
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 22,63 MB
Release : 2009-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0195336763
Everywhere you look in 1970s American cinema, you find white working-class men. The persistent appearance of working-class characters in these and other films of the 1970s reveals the powerful role class played in the key social and political developments of the decade.
Author : Cormac McCarthy
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 18,83 MB
Release : 2007-11-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307390535
From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road comes a "profoundly disturbing and gorgeously rendered" novel (The Washington Post) that returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of the famed Border Trilogy. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law—in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell—can contain. As Moss tries to evade his pursuers—in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives—McCarthy simultaneously strips down the American crime novel and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning’s headlines. No Country for Old Men is a triumph. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.