The woman s picture, the male trauma narrative, and mind-game films three ways that American cinema tests the limits: of what victims can suffer, what the body can bear, and what the mind can understand. Usually considered both marginal and excessive, these genres, modes, or tendencies in contemporary Hollywood have more in common than might at first appear. They tell us much about the way America engages in dialogue with its own divided nature and nation, demonstrated across its most cherished and characteristic of art forms: the movies."
The woman s picture, the male trauma narrative, and mind-game films three ways that American cinema tests the limits: of what victims can suffer, w...
The woman s picture, the male trauma narrative, and mind-game films three ways that American cinema tests the limits: of what victims can suffer, what the body can bear, and what the mind can understand. Usually considered both marginal and excessive, these genres, modes, or tendencies in contemporary Hollywood have more in common than might at first appear. They tell us much about the way America engages in dialogue with its own divided nature and nation, demonstrated across its most cherished and characteristic of art forms: the movies.
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The woman s picture, the male trauma narrative, and mind-game films three ways that American cinema tests the limits: of what victims can suffer, w...
In Hollywood Time, one of the most influential figures in the study of classical Hollywood cinema examines various paradigms for reading Hollywood and its cinema. In chapters on the great age of melodrama, the era of 'New Hollywood', post-classical Hollywood, and the current culture of digital Hollywood, Thomas Elsaesser considers the applicability of classical film theory and alternatives to it. Bringing together some of Eslaesser's classic texts along with many of his never-before-published essays, this volume explores a broad range of topics from cinephilia and auteurs--Nicholas Ray, Sam...
In Hollywood Time, one of the most influential figures in the study of classical Hollywood cinema examines various paradigms for reading Hollywood and...
