附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-294).
The new Hollywood / Thomas Schatz -- Reclaiming the social : pedagogy, resistance, and politics in celluloid culture / Henry A. Giroux -- Pretty is as pretty does : free enterprise and the marriage plot / Hilary Radner -- The unauthorized auteur today / Dudley Andrew -- Loose canons : constructing cultural traditions inside and outside the academy / Ava Preacher Collins -- Spectacles of death : identification, reflexivity, and contemporary horror / Jeffrey Sconce -- Hardware and hardbodies, what do women want? : a reading of Thelma and Louise / Sharon Willis -- Thelma and Louise and the cultural generation of the new butch-femme / Cathy Griggers -- Taboos and totems : cultural meanings of The silence of the lambs / Janet Staiger -- The powers of seeing and being seen : Truth or dare and Paris is burning / Ann Cvetkovich -- Spike Lee and the fever in the racial jungle / Ed Guerrero.
Split skins : female agency and bodily mutilation in The little mermaid / Susan White -- The big switch : Hollywood masculinity in the nineties / Susan Jeffords -- Between apocalypse and redemption : John Singleton's Boyz n the hood / Michael Eric Dyson -- Making cyborgs, making humans : of terminators and blade runners / Forest Pyle -- Genericity in the nineties : eclectic irony and the new sincerity / Jim Collins.
摘要:Film Theory Goes to the Movies fills the gap in film theory literature which has failed to analyze high-grossing blockbusters. The contributors in this volume, however, discuss such popular films as The Silence of the Lambs, Dances With Wolves, Terminator II, Pretty Woman, Truth or Dare, Mystery Train, and Jungle Fever. They employ a variety of critical approaches, from industry analysis to reception study, to close readings informed by feminist, deconstructive and postmodernist theory, as well as recent developments in African American and gay and lesbian criticism. An important introduction to contemporary Hollywood, this anthology will be of interest to those involved in the fields of film theory, literary theory, popular culture, and women's studies.
