You are tearing me apart, Lisa! : the year's work on The room, the worst movie ever made /

"When released in 2003, The Room, an obscure, self-financed relationship drama by Tommy Wiseau, should have been forgotten. And yet it has since become a cult classic, despite being crowned "the worst movie ever made" by many a critic. In You Are Tearing Me Apart, Lisa!, contributors...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Rosen, Adam M. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2022]
Colección:Year's work (Bloomington, Ind.)
Temas:
Room (Motion picture)
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
Film criticism
Film criticism.
Critiques cinématographiques.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction Let's Toss the Ball Around: Adam M. Rosen
  • Part I: Cliché and Convention, Misapplied
  • 1. Chris-R's Gun: The Room as an Unconscious Parody of Hollywood Film Conventions: Carter Soles
  • 2. Do You Understand Life? Do You?: Tommy Wiseau and the Anti-method Acting Style: James Curnow
  • 3. "She Can't Love Anyone": The Evil Women and Tormented Men of The Room: Lenika Cruz
  • Part II: Unlocking The Room
  • 4. Is The Room Worse than Vertigo? The Aesthetic Philosophy of "So Bad It's Good": James MacDowell
  • 5. Everybody Betray Me!: Revenge, Reverse Revenge, and Slave Morality in The Room: John Dyck
  • 6. Anything for My Princess: Using Don Quixote to Bring (Some) Coherence to The Room: Adam M. Rosen
  • 7. Crypto-Wiseaulogy: Uncovering Stanley Kubrick, Jewishness, and Judaism in The Room: Nathan Abrams
  • Part III: Cult and the (Class) Room
  • 8. I Just Like to Watch You Guys: How Screenings of The Room Give People Permission to Perform: Ellen Wright
  • 9. The Room in the Classroom: How I Use a Bad Movie to Teach Good Filmmaking: Ross Morin
  • 10. For the Love of Cult
  • or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Build My Own Screening of The Room: Amanda Ann Klein
  • Part IV: Fan Reception
  • 11. How Can They Say This about Me?: Riffing Johnny, Lisa, and Denny in Online Home-Brew Commentaries of The Room: Matt Foy
  • 12. "Can We Please Not Talk about James Franco?": How The Disaster Artist Threatened The Room's Fanbase: John Donegan
  • 13. I'm Tired, I'm Wasted: The Room as a Waste of Time: Ernest Mathijs
  • Part V: Constructing Tommy Wiseau
  • 14. Oh Man, I Just Can't Figure You Out: Building the Persona of Tommy Wiseau through The Disaster Artist: Hario Satrio Priambodho
  • 15. I'm an American, Just like You: The Room and American Cinema, Identity, and Masculinity: Landon Palmer
  • 16. To Err Is Human, to Auteur, Divine: Tommy Wiseau as Auteur: Renee Middlemost
  • 17. I Don't Have a Friend in the World: The Lonely Authenticity of Tommy Wiseau: Keith Kahn-Harris
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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