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Darwin's Screens.
'Barbara Creed's intriguing study offers more than new insights into the origins of the cinema. Even more ambitious, it offers an alternative history of Western film as seen through the lens of Darwinism.'-Professor Jonathan Smith, University of Michigan, author of Charles Darwin and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Melbourne :
Melbourne University Press,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Darwin, early cinema and the origin of uncanny narrative forms; 2 Darwin's pre-cinematic eye: evolution and metamorphosis in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; 3 The future of evolution: science fiction, deep time and alien species; 4 Evolutionary aesthetics: the Hollywood musical as Darwinian mating game; 5 The Darwinian gaze: sexual display, sexual selection and the femme fatale; 6 Devolutionary aesthetics and the early detective film: in search of the 'missing link'; 7 The unheimlich Pacific of popular film: Darwin's surreal imagination.
- 8 What do animals dream of? Or King Kong as Darwinian screen animal9 A Darwinian love story: Oshima's Max Mon Amour; References; Index; Copyright.