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Hollywood aesthetic : pleasure in American cinema / Todd Berliner.
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, [2017]Description: xv, 298 pages : illustrations ; 27 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780190658755
- 0190658754
- PN1995 .B3655 2017
Contents:
Introduction -- Hollywood classicism and deviation -- The Hollywood aesthetic -- Classicism and deviation in His girl Friday and Double indemnity -- Narrative. Hollywood storytelling -- Finding the fit: shifting story logic in Red River -- Style. Hollywood style -- Raging bull’s stylistic dissonance -- Ideology. Ideology, emotion, and aesthetic pleasure -- Crime films during the period of the production code administration -- Genre and ideology in starship troopers -- Genre. The Hollywood genre system -- Bursting into song in the Hollywood musical -- Complexity and experimentation in the Western -- Conclusion.
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Non-fiction | Main Collection | PN 1995 .B3655 2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | C20001459 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-274) and indexes.
Introduction -- Hollywood classicism and deviation -- The Hollywood aesthetic -- Classicism and deviation in His girl Friday and Double indemnity -- Narrative. Hollywood storytelling -- Finding the fit: shifting story logic in Red River -- Style. Hollywood style -- Raging bull’s stylistic dissonance -- Ideology. Ideology, emotion, and aesthetic pleasure -- Crime films during the period of the production code administration -- Genre and ideology in starship troopers -- Genre. The Hollywood genre system -- Bursting into song in the Hollywood musical -- Complexity and experimentation in the Western -- Conclusion.
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