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Britton on Film : The Complete Film Criticism of Andrew Britton.
Title:
Britton on Film : The Complete Film Criticism of Andrew Britton.
Author:
Britton, Andrew.
ISBN:
9780814335505
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (571 pages)
Series:
Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
Contents:
Cover -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction by Robin Wood -- Part One: Hollywood Cinema -- Cary Grant: Comedy and Male Desire -- A New Servitude: Bette Davis, Now, Voyager, and the Radicalism of the Woman's Film -- The Devil, Probably: The Symbolism of Evil -- Sideshows: Hollywood in Vietnam -- Blissing Out: The Politics of Reaganite Entertainment -- Part Two: Hollywood Movies -- Meet Me in St. Louis: Smith, or The Ambiguities -- Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound: Text and Countertext -- Detour -- Notes on Pursued -- The Family in The Reckless Moment -- Betrayed by Rita Hayworth: Misogyny in The Lady from Shanghai -- The Exorcist -- Jaws -- Mandingo -- 10 -- The Great Waldo Pepper -- The Other Side of Midnight -- Part Three: European Cinema -- Sexuality and Power, or the Two Others -- Their Finest Hour: Humphrey Jennings and the British Imperial Myth of World War II -- Metaphor and Mimesis: Madame de . . . -- Thinking about Father: Bernardo Bertolucci -- Living Historically: Two Films by Jean-Luc Godard -- "Foxed": Fox and His Friends -- Part Four: Film and Cultural Theory -- In Defense of Criticism -- For Interpretation: Notes Against Camp -- The Ideology of Screen -- The Philosophy of the Pigeonhole: Wisconsin Formalism and "The Classical Style" -- The Myth of Postmodernism: The Bourgeois Intelligentsia in the Age of Reagan -- Consuming Culture: The Development of a Theoretical Orthodoxy -- Invisible Eye -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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