American Smart Cinema / / Claire Perkins.
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 d...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2012 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Traditions in World Cinema : TWC
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (192 p.) :; 16 B/W illustrations 16 black and white film stills |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- TRADITIONS IN WORLD CINEMA
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. AUTHORSHIP: WHIT STILLMAN’S ‘YUPPIE’ TRILOGY, FLIRT, ADAPTATION1
- 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