Keyframes

Popular Cinema and Cultural Studies

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Edited by Matthew Tinkcom and Amy Villarejo

Type

Studies

Subject

Countries > United States

Keywords

popular films, Hollywood

Publishing date

2001

Publisher

Routledge

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 416 pages
7 x 9 ½ inches (18 x 24 cm)

ISBN-10
ISBN-13

0-415-20282-5
978-0-415-20282-4

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Book Presentation:
Keyframes introduces the study of popular cinema of Hollywood and beyond and responds to the transformative effect of cultural studies on film studies.
The contributors rethink contemporary film culture using ideas and concerns from feminism, queer theory, 'race' studies, critiques of nationalism, colonialism and post-colonialism, the cultural economies of fandom, spectator theory, and Marxism. Combining a film studies focus on the film industry, production and technology with a cultural studies analysis of consumption and audiences, Keframes demonstrates the breadth of approaches now available for understanding popular cinema. Subjects addressed include:
* Studying Ripley and the 'Alien' films
* Pedagogy and Political Correctness in Martial Arts cinema
* Judy Garland fandom on the net
* Stardom and serial fantasies: Thomas Harris's 'Hannibal'
* Tom Hanks and the globalization of stars
* Queer Bollywood
* Jackie Chan and the Black connection
* '12 Monkeys', postmodernism and urban space.

About the authors:
Matthew Tinkcom is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Georgetown University. Amy Villarejo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre, Film and Dance at Cornell University.

See the publisher website: Routledge