Engaging Film Criticism
Film History and Contemporary American Cinema
de Walter Metz
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Engaging Film Criticism examines recent American cinema in relationship to its «imaginative intertexts», films from earlier decades that engage similar political and cultural themes. This historical encounter provides an unexpected and exciting way of reading popular contemporary films. Eclectic pairings include the Schwarzenegger action film True Lies with the Hitchcock classic North by Northwest, as well as the lampooned Will Smith comedy Wild, Wild West with Buster Keaton’s silent feature The General. Using a theoretically and historically informed brand of criticism, Engaging Film Criticism suggests that today’s Hollywood cinema is every bit as worthy of study as the classics.
À propos de l'auteur :
The Author: Walter Metz is Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Theatre Arts at Montana State University-Bozeman, where he teaches the history, theory, and criticism of film, theatre, and television. He is the author of numerous book chapters and professional journal articles which focus on intertextual approaches to film adaptation, genre, and authorship.
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«Metz deserves a Film Studies Oscar for opening up ‘film criticism’ to historical, cultural and theoretical interconnections as he offers new insights into the intertextual analysis of recent American cinema from ‘Die Another Day’ and ‘True Lies’ to ‘The Hudsucker Proxy’, ‘Sling Blade’ and many others.» (Andrew Horton, Jeanne H Smith Professor of Film & Video Studies, University of Oklahoma)
«In describing good criticism, Roland Barthes has said that it is criticism that one would have wished to have written. Walter Metz’s comparative analyses of 1990s American cinema are that for me. Every page of this book provides a valuable surprise. Metz is one of the most sophisticated but reasonable practicing critics writing today.» (Janet Staiger, William P. Hobby Centennial Professor in Communication, University of Texas at Austin)
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