Rethinking Genre in Contemporary Global Cinema

Rethinking Genre in Contemporary Global Cinema offers a unique, wide-ranging exploration of the intersection between traditional modes of film production and new, transitional/transnational approaches to film genre and related discourses in a contemporary, global context. This volume's content-...

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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Subjects:
Film genres.
Motion pictures.
Culture.
ISBN:9783319901343
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Genres in Transition (Silvia Dibeltulo and Ciara Barrett)
  • 2. Black, White, and Transnational: An Analysis of the Rise, Fall, and Potential Rebirth of the Contemporary Urban Dance Musical in Anglophone Western Cinemas (Ciara Barrett)
  • 3. Tales of Loss, Betrayal, and Regain: Irishness and Ethnic Identity in Contemporary Irish-Themed American Gangster Films (Silvia Dibeltulo)
  • 4. Neurotic and Going Nowhere: Comedy and the Contemporary Jewish American Male (Jennifer O'Meara)
  • 5. Modern Bromance, Mikhail Bakhtin, and the Dialogics of Alterity (David Wall)
  • 6. The En-genrement of the Nation: The Spanish Civil War Film and Guillermo del Toro's Fantasies (Juan F. Egea)
  • 7. Commedia all' italiana American Style: Assessing the Recent Remakes of Classic Comedy Italian Style (Giacomo Boitani)
  • 8. The Wuxia Films of Zhang Yimou: A Genre in Transit (Ian Kinane)
  • 9. The "Smart" Teen Film 1990-2005: Identity Crisis, Nostalgia, and the Teenage Viewpoint (Laura Canning)
  • 10. Constructing the Televideofilm: Corporatization, Genrefication, and the Blurring Boundaries of Nigerian Media (Noah Tsika)
  • 11. From Nordic Gloom to Nordic Cool: Producing Genre Film for the Global Markets (Pietari Kääpä)
  • 12. A Bollywood Commercial for Ireland: Filming Ek Tha Tiger in Dublin (Giovanna Rampazzo)
  • 13. Kant's Sublime and the Disaster Film after 9/11 (Barry Monahan)
  • 14. Two Chronotopes of the Terrorist Genre (Cormac Deane)
  • 15. Between Torture Porn and Zombie Apocalypse: Horror and Utopia in British-themed Biopolitical Films after 9/11 (Tamás Nagypál).

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