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Britton on film : the complete film criticism of Andrew Britton /

"For fifteen years before his untimely death, Andrew Britton produced a body of undeniably brilliant film criticism that has been largely ignored within academic circles. Though Britton's writings are extraordinary in their depth and range and are closely attuned to the nuances of the text...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Britton, Andrew, 1952-1994
Otros Autores: Grant, Barry Keith, 1947-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, ©2009.
Colección:Contemporary approaches to film and television series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cary Grant: comedy and male desire
  • A new servitude: Bette Davis, Now, voyager, and the radicalism of the woman's film
  • The devil, probably: the symbolism of evil
  • Sideshows: Hollywood in Vietnam
  • Blissing out: the politics of Reaganite entertainment
  • Meet me in St. Louis: Smith, or The ambiguities
  • Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound: text and countertext
  • Detour
  • Notes on Pursued
  • The family in The reckless moment
  • The exorcist
  • Jaws
  • Mandingo
  • 10
  • The great Waldo Pepper
  • The other side of midnight
  • Sexuality and power, or the two others
  • Their finest hour: Humphrey Jennings and the British imperial myth of World War II
  • Metaphor and mimesis: Madame de ...
  • Thinking about father: Bernardo Bertolucci
  • Living historically: two films by Jean-Luc Godard
  • "Foxed": Fox and his friends
  • In defense of criticism
  • For interpretation: notes against camp
  • The ideology of Screen
  • The philosophy of the pigeonhole: Wisconsin formalism and "the classical style"
  • The myth of postmodernism: the bourgeois intelligentsia in the age of Reagan
  • Consuming culture: the development of a theoretical orthodoxy.