The new-brutality film : race and affect in contemporary Hollywood cinema /
The 1990's saw the emergence of a new kind of American cinema, which this book calls the "new brutality film." Violence and race have been at the heart of Hollywood cinema since its birth, but the new brutality film was the first kind of popular American cinema to begin making this re...
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Intellect Books Ltd
2005
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- 1st ed.
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The 1990's saw the emergence of a new kind of American cinema, which this book calls the "new brutality film." Violence and race have been at the heart of Hollywood cinema since its birth, but the new brutality film was the first kind of popular American cinema to begin making this relationship explicit. The rise of this cinema coincided with the rebirth of a long neglected strand of film theory, which seeks to unravel the complex relations of affect between the screen and the viewer. This book analyses and connects both of these developments, arguing that films like Falling Down, Reservoir Dogs,
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- 1 online resource (222 p.)
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- English
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-202) and index.
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9786610476992
9781280476990
1280476990
9781841509266
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Parallelausgabe: 9781841501192Parallelausgabe: 1841501190
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