American Cinema Of The 1990s

Author : Chris Holmlund
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813543665
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Cinema of the 1990s written by Chris Holmlund and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Films discussed include Terminator 2, The matrix, Home alone, Jurassic Park, Pulp fiction, Boys don't cry, Toy story and Clueless.

Author : Chris Holmlund
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813545781
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Cinema of the 1990s written by Chris Holmlund and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the U.S. economy booming under President Bill Clinton and the cold war finally over, many Americans experienced peace and prosperity in the nineties. Digital technologies gained popularity, with nearly one billion people online by the end of the decade. The film industry wondered what the effect on cinema would be. The essays in American Cinema of the 1990s examine the big-budget blockbusters and critically acclaimed independent films that defined the decade. The 1990s' most popular genre, action, channeled anxieties about global threats such as AIDS and foreign terrorist attacks into escapist entertainment movies. Horror films and thrillers were on the rise, but family-friendly pictures and feel-good romances netted big audiences too. Meanwhile, independent films captured hearts, engaged minds, and invaded Hollywood: by decade's end every studio boasted its own "art film" affiliate.

Author : Christine Holmlund
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780213543655
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Cinema of the 1990s written by Christine Holmlund and published by . This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chris Holmlund
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781780347851
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Download or read book American Cinema of the 1990s written by Chris Holmlund and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in American Cinema of the 1990s examine the big-budget blockbusters and critically acclaimed independent films that defined the decade.

Author : J. Nilsson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113730099X
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Film Satire in the 1990s written by J. Nilsson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines how a particular selection of films turned American cultural material of the 1990s into satirical experiences for viewers and finds that there are elements of resistance to norms and conventions in politics, to mainstream news channels and Hollywood, and to official American history already embedded in the culture.

Author : Robert Murphy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838714774
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Cinema of the 90s written by Robert Murphy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines major box office hits like 'The Full Monty' as well as critically acclaimed films like 'Under the Skin'. It explores the role of distribution and exhibition, the Americanisation of British film culture, Hollywood and Europe, changing representations of sexuality and ethnicity.

Author : André Gaudreault
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813544432
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Cinema, 1890-1909 written by André Gaudreault and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in American Cinema 1890-1909 explore and define how the making of motion pictures flowered into an industry that would finally become the central entertainment institution of the world. Beginning with all the early types of pictures that moved, this volume tells the story of the invention and consolidation of the various processes that gave rise to what we now call "cinema."

Author : Timothy Corrigan
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813553237
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Cinema of the 2000s written by Timothy Corrigan and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The decade from 2000 to 2009 is framed, at one end, by the traumatic catastrophe of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and, at the other, by the election of the first African American president of the United States. In between, the United States and the world witnessed the rapid expansion of new media and the Internet, such natural disasters as Hurricane Katrina, political uprisings around the world, and a massive meltdown of world economies. Amid these crises and revolutions, American films responded in multiple ways, sometimes directly reflecting these turbulent times, and sometimes indirectly couching history in traditional genres and stories. In American Cinema of the 2000s, essays from ten top film scholars examine such popular series as the groundbreaking Matrix films and the gripping adventures of former CIA covert operative Jason Bourne; new, offbeat films like Juno; and the resurgence of documentaries like Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11. Each essay demonstrates the complex ways in which American culture and American cinema are bound together in subtle and challenging ways.

Author : Alisa Perren
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 029272912X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indie, Inc. written by Alisa Perren and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indie, Inc. surveys Miramax's evolution from independent producer-distributor to studio subsidiary, chronicling how one company transformed not just the independent film world but the film and media industries more broadly. Miramax's activities had an impact on everything from film festival practices to marketing strategies, talent development to awards campaigning. Case studies of key films, including The Piano, Kids, Scream, The English Patient, and Life is Beautiful, reveal how Miramax went beyond influencing Hollywood business practices and motion picture aesthetics to shaping popular and critical discourses about cinema during the 1990s ... [and] looks at the range of Miramax-released genre films, foreign-language films, and English-language imports released over the course of the decade.

Author : Timothy Shary
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780292774902
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Generation Multiplex written by Timothy Shary and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-01-27 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When teenagers began hanging out at the mall in the early 1980s, the movies followed. Multiplex theaters offered teens a wide array of perspectives on the coming-of-age experience, as well as an escape into the alternative worlds of science fiction and horror. Youth films remained a popular and profitable genre through the 1990s, offering teens a place to reflect on their evolving identities from adolescence to adulthood while simultaneously shaping and maintaining those identities. Drawing examples from hundreds of popular and lesser-known youth-themed films, Timothy Shary here offers a comprehensive examination of the representation of teenagers in American cinema in the 1980s and 1990s. He focuses on five subgenres—school, delinquency, horror, science, and romance/sexuality—to explore how they represent teens and their concerns, how these representations change over time, and how youth movies both mirror and shape societal expectations and fears about teen identities and roles. He concludes that while some teen films continue to exploit various notions of youth sexuality and violence, most teen films of the past generation have shown an increasing diversity of adolescent experiences and have been sympathetic to the particular challenges that teens face.