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Film theory goes to the movies / [electronic resource] edited by Jim Collins, Hilary Radner, and Ava Preacher Collins.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: AFI film readersPublication details: New York : Routledge, 1993.Description: ix, 297 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0415905753 (acid-free paper)
  • 9780415905756 (acid-free paper)
  • 0415905761 (acid-free paper)
  • 9780415905763 (acid-free paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43 20
LOC classification:
  • PN1994 .F43915 1993
Other classification:
  • 24.31
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.

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