Toward a new film aesthetic /
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| Author / Creator: | Isaacs, Bruce. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Continuum, c2008. |
| Description: | vi, 234 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | Motion pictures -- Aesthetics. Motion pictures -- Aesthetics. |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6670667 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. A Notion of Film Aesthetics
- Engaging the Aesthetic Impulse
- Realism: Foundations
- Bazin and the Myth of Total Cinema
- Depth of Field and Focus
- Citizen Kane: A Cinematographic Revolution?
- A Note on the Mechanics of Style
- Auteurism and the Artifice of the Cinematic Image
- Focus and Signification
- A Brief Defense of Bazin
- The Transcendence of the Image
- Conclusion
- 2. Toward a Theory of Popular Culture
- Culture as Functionality
- Culture as Commodity
- Culture as Industry
- Authenticity and Spectacle
- 3. Text and Spectacle in The Matrix Franchise
- Conceptualizing the Spectacle Aesthetic
- Further Musings on Authenticity and the Spectacle
- A Brief Note on (Mis) Reading Cinema
- Spectacle and Technology
- The Matrix Phenomenon
- Toward a Notion of Textual Discursivity
- Intertextuality and Discursivity
- Myth and Text in The Matrix Franchise: Gorging on the Sacred Past
- Cinema and the Contemporary Mythology
- Conceptualizing the Hypermyth
- Baudrillard and a Simulated Mythology
- Screening the Hypermyth
- The Discursivity of the One
- The Visibility of Style: Image Strategies in Contemporary Cinema
- 24: Real-Time Narrative
- The Ontology of Bullet-Time
- 4. The Cinematic Real: Image, Text, Culture
- The Spectacle Aesthetic, Or the Cinematic Real
- The Metacinematic Lens
- Character Acting
- Foregrounding Genericity: The Limitations of Classical Film Genre
- Genre and Contemporary Cinematic Forms
- Genericity: Beyond Genre
- Performing Genericity
- The Metacinematic Aesthetic: Tarantino-Leone-Eastwood
- Metacinema and Postmodern Narrative: The New Auteurism
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Filmography
- Index
