| Description |
xiii, 398 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Part I. Woman as inter/national sign -- "You've been in my life so long I can't remember anything else" : into the labyrinth with Ripley and the alien / Pamela Church Gibson -- Warrior marks : global womanism's neo-colonial discourse in a multicultural context / Inderphal Grewal and Karen Kaplan -- "Daddy, where's the FBI warning?" : constructing the video spectator / Ina Rae Hark -- Romance and/as tourism : heritage whiteness and the (inter)national imaginary in the new woman's film / Diane Negra -- Race as spectacle, feminism as alibi : representing the civil rights era in the 1990s / Sharon Willis -- Part II. New constellation stars -- Judy on the net : Judy Garland fandon and "the gay thing" revisited / Steven Cohan -- Jackie Chan and the black connection / Gina Marchetti -- Stardom and serial fantasies : Thomas Harris's Hannibal / Linda Mizejewski -- Learning from Bruce Lee : pedagogy and political correctness in martial arts cinema / Meaghan Morris -- "Waas sappening?" : narrative structure and iconography in Born in East L.A. / Chon A Noriega -- Part III. Moving desires -- The voice of pornography : tracking the subject through the sonic spaces of gay male moving image pornography / Rich Cante and Angelo Restivo -- Nostalgia of the new wave : structure in Wong Kar-wai's Happy together / Rey Chow -- Mario Lanza and the "fourth world" / Marcia Landy -- Devouring creation : cannibalism, sodomy, and the scene of analysis in Suddenly, last summer / Kevin Ohi -- Queer Bollywood, or "I'm the player, you're the naive one" : patterns of sexual subversion in recent Indian popular cinema / Thomas Waugh -- Part IV. Production notes -- Cinema studies doesn't matter; or, I know what you did last semester / Toby Miller -- 12 monkeys, postmodernism, and the urban : toward a new method / Matthew Ruben -- Terminator technology : Hollywood, history, and technology / Paul Smith -- "Compulsory" viewing for every citizen : Mr. Smith and the rhetoric of reception / Eric Smoodin -- Standardizing professionalism and showmanship : the performance of motion picture projectionists during the early sync-sound era / Steve Wurtzler -- States of emergency / Patricia R. Zimmerman. zð |
| Summary |
Through case studies from Wong Kar Wai's Happy Together to Judy Garland fandom on the Internet, this work examines the encounter between film studies and cultural studies, offering new ways of reading popular film |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also available online via the World Wide Web by subscription to netLibrary, Inc. (CEIRC Shared Collection) |
| Subject |
Mass media and culture -- United States.
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Mass media and culture.
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Motion pictures -- History.
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects.
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Motion pictures -- Study and teaching.
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Motion pictures.
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Popular culture -- Study and teaching.
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Popular culture -- United States.
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Popular culture.
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| Author |
Tinkcom, Matthew, 1962-
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Villarejo, Amy.
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| LC no. |
00002290 |
| ISBN |
0415202817 |
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0415202825 (paperback) |
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