| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 359 pages) : illustrations |
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Film and culture |
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Film and culture.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Stereotype theory: concepts, perspectives, and controversies. The stereotype in psychology and the humanities -- Some aspects and levels of stereotypization in film -- The intellectual viewpoint versus the stereotype in mass culture -- A discourse history: the topic of the "stereotype" throughout film theory -- Prelude : Walther Rathenau's cultural criticism, Hugo Munsterberg's Euphoric -- Concept of film as art, and the neglect of the stereotype -- Bela Balazs's new visual culture, the tradition of linguistic skepticism, and Robert Musil's notion of the "formulaic" -- The readymade products of the fantasy machine : Rudolf Arnheim, Rene Fulop-Miller, and the discourse on the "standardization" of film -- The stereotype as intelligible form : Cohen-Seat, Morin, and semiology -- Irony and transfiguration : the postmodern view of the stereotype -- Film analysis : critique and transfiguration-three case studies -- Enjoying the stereotype and intense double-play acting : the performance of Jennifer Jason Leigh in the Hudsucker proxy -- Epilogue |
| Summary |
Since the early days of film, critics and theorists have debated the value of formula, cliché, conventional imagery, and recurring narrative patterns of reduced complexity. The high noon showdown or last-minute rescue, the lonely woman standing in the window or two lovers saying goodbye in the rain-many films rely on these scenes, and audiences have come to expect them. Outlining a comprehensive theory of film stereotype, a device as functionally important to film narrative as it is problematic, Jörg Schweinitz builds an overlooked critical history from the 1920s to today. Drawing |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Includes filmography |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures.
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Social psychology in motion pictures.
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ART -- Film & Video.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- General.
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Social psychology in motion pictures
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Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2010044342 |
| ISBN |
0231525214 |
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9780231525213 |
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