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1 online resource (xi, 359 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
[Part] one : The politics of form -- Language, representation, narrative. Say the right thing (Do the right thing) ; Interruption as style : Buñuel's The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie ; Polanski and the American experiment (Bitter moon) -- Utopian space and urban encounters. Tati's democracy ; His mistress's voice : Akerman's Night and day ; Seen and unseen encounters : Kieslowski's Red -- Chance and control. Altman and the spirit of improvisation (California split) ; Lies of the mind (Talking to strangers) -- Classification and genre : musical ghettos. On Latcho drom ; Four books on the Hollywood musical -- [Part] two : Entertainment as oppression : the Hollywood apparatus. Entertainment as oppression ; Missing the target ; Spielberg's gentiles (Schindler's list) ; The solitary pleasures of Star wars ; Jack Reed's Christmas puppy : reflections on Reds ; A perversion of the past (Mississippi burning) ; Circle of pain : the cinema of Nicholas Ray ; Vietnam, the theme park (Hearts of darkness : a filmmaker's apocalypse) ; Sexual discourse (The piano) ; Hollywood radical (Malcolm X) ; Ace Ventura reconsidered ; The world according to Harvey and Bob (Smoke, the glass shield) ; Stupidity as redemption (Forrest Gump) ; Allusion profusion (Ed Wood, Pulp fiction). |
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[Part] three : Issues of ideology -- Alternatives. The problem with poetry : Leos Carax ; No stars, a must-see (The plot against Harry) ; The rattle of armor, the softness of flesh : Bresson's Lancelot du Lac ; The functions of a disease (Safe) ; England on the inside : the films of Mike Leigh -- Political subjects. The significance of sniggering : Zwigoff's Crumb ; Jean Eustache's La Maman et la putain ; Film writing degree zero : the marketplace and the university ; Tribal trouble (Atom Egoyan's Calendar) ; Us and them (Blood in the face) -- Other cinemas. Feudal attraction (Ju dou) ; The vision of the conquered (Kurosawa's Rhapsody in August) ; Searching for Taiwan (The puppet master) ; Inner space (Tarkovsky's Solaris) ; Tribal scars (Sembene's Black girl) -- Alternate histories. The seven Arkadins ; Tih-Minh, out 1 : on the nonreception of two French serials ; His twentieth century : Godard's Histoire(s) du cinema ; Pages from the Endfield file ; On second thoughs (Marker's The last bolshevik). |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Political aspects.
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Motion pictures -- Political aspects. |
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Motion pictures. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rosenbaum, Jonathan. Movies as politics. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©1997 0520206142 (DLC) 96009916 (OCoLC)35285312 |
| ISBN |
9780520918108 (electronic book) |
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052091810X (electronic book) |
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0585285381 (electronic book) |
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9780585285382 (electronic book) |
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9780520206144 (acid-free paper) |
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0520206142 (acid-free paper) |
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9780520206151 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0520206150 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0520206142 (acid-free paper) |
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0520206150 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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