Cinema and Cultural Modernity

Name: Cinema and Cultural Modernity
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ISBN: 9780335200764

ISBN-10: 0335200761

ISBN-13: 9780335200764

Edition: 2000

Authors: Gill Branston

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* What is the relationship of popular cinema to the concept of 'modernity'? * What now are the key areas of debate which focus the study of cinema and its audiences? * How can we understand the relationship of cinema to both the pleasures of consumerism and the inequalities addressed by critical politics? Cinema and Cultural Modernity carves a lucid path through the central debates of film and cinema studies and explores these in their social and political contexts. The book includes histories of the ways in which we view Hollywood's global dominance, up to the development of late modernity and the declaration of 'postmodernity'. In an accessible fashion, it discusses changing…

Book details

Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Binding: Paperback
Size: 6.69" wide x 8.86" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Cardiff University, UK



Series Editor's Foreword


Acknowledgements


Introduction


Cinema is not dead


Modernity


Hollywood, cinema studies and this book



Hollywood Histories


Early cinema histories


Movies as culture industries


Cultures of consumption


The studio system


Classical or standardized?


A speculation on modernity and modernism


Further reading



'New Again' Hollywood


Post-studio histories


High concept and multi-marketed rollercoasters


Full global media conglomeracy


Further reading



'Globally Popular' Cinema?


Globalization, cultural imperialism and cinema


'To be global is to be American'?


FX and global narratives


Exhibiting global/local inequalities


Further reading



Authors and Agency


Theories of authoriship and cinema


A note on mise-en-scene


Cultural politics, agency, authorship


Branding authors: the case of Hitchcock


Collective production and agency


Further reading



Stars, Bodies, Galaxies


Stars in studio histories


Audiences and fans


Performance, presence, acting


Post-studio stars


Further reading



Movies Move Audiences


The limits of textiness


Mulvey and moving 'looks'


Cine-psychoanalysis


Identification and narratives


From spectators to audiences


'Escape', utopias and cinemas


Further reading



Identifying A Critical Politics of Representation


From representation to identities


Representation, stereotyping, politics


Realisms


Audiences


The burden of representation


Back to the future?


Further reading


Glossary


Bibliography


Index