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Movies as politics / Jonathan Rosenbaum.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, �1997.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 359 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520918108
  • 052091810X
  • 0585285381
  • 9780585285382
  • 9780520206144
  • 0520206142
  • 9780520206151
  • 0520206150
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Movies as politics.DDC classification:
  • 791.43/658 20
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.P6 R67 1997eb
Online resources:
Contents:
[Part] one : The politics of form -- Language, representation, narrative. Say the right thing (Do the right thing) ; Interruption as style : Bu�nuel's The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie ; Polanski and the American experiment (Bitter moon) -- Utopian space and urban encounters. Tati's democracy ; His mistress's voice : Akerman's Night and day ; Seen and unseen encounters : Kieslowski's Red -- Chance and control. Altman and the spirit of improvisation (California split) ; Lies of the mind (Talking to strangers) -- Classification and genre : musical ghettos. On Latcho drom ; Four books on the Hollywood musical -- [Part] two : Entertainment as oppression : the Hollywood apparatus. Entertainment as oppression ; Missing the target ; Spielberg's gentiles (Schindler's list) ; The solitary pleasures of Star wars ; Jack Reed's Christmas puppy : reflections on Reds ; A perversion of the past (Mississippi burning) ; Circle of pain : the cinema of Nicholas Ray ; Vietnam, the theme park (Hearts of darkness : a filmmaker's apocalypse) ; Sexual discourse (The piano) ; Hollywood radical (Malcolm X) ; Ace Ventura reconsidered ; The world according to Harvey and Bob (Smoke, the glass shield) ; Stupidity as redemption (Forrest Gump) ; Allusion profusion (Ed Wood, Pulp fiction).
[Part] three : Issues of ideology -- Alternatives. The problem with poetry : Leos Carax ; No stars, a must-see (The plot against Harry) ; The rattle of armor, the softness of flesh : Bresson's Lancelot du Lac ; The functions of a disease (Safe) ; England on the inside : the films of Mike Leigh -- Political subjects. The significance of sniggering : Zwigoff's Crumb ; Jean Eustache's La Maman et la putain ; Film writing degree zero : the marketplace and the university ; Tribal trouble (Atom Egoyan's Calendar) ; Us and them (Blood in the face) -- Other cinemas. Feudal attraction (Ju dou) ; The vision of the conquered (Kurosawa's Rhapsody in August) ; Searching for Taiwan (The puppet master) ; Inner space (Tarkovsky's Solaris) ; Tribal scars (Sembene's Black girl) -- Alternate histories. The seven Arkadins ; Tih-Minh, out 1 : on the nonreception of two French serials ; His twentieth century : Godard's Histoire(s) du cinema ; Pages from the Endfield file ; On second thoughs (Marker's The last bolshevik).
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[Part] one : The politics of form -- Language, representation, narrative. Say the right thing (Do the right thing) ; Interruption as style : Bu�nuel's The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie ; Polanski and the American experiment (Bitter moon) -- Utopian space and urban encounters. Tati's democracy ; His mistress's voice : Akerman's Night and day ; Seen and unseen encounters : Kieslowski's Red -- Chance and control. Altman and the spirit of improvisation (California split) ; Lies of the mind (Talking to strangers) -- Classification and genre : musical ghettos. On Latcho drom ; Four books on the Hollywood musical -- [Part] two : Entertainment as oppression : the Hollywood apparatus. Entertainment as oppression ; Missing the target ; Spielberg's gentiles (Schindler's list) ; The solitary pleasures of Star wars ; Jack Reed's Christmas puppy : reflections on Reds ; A perversion of the past (Mississippi burning) ; Circle of pain : the cinema of Nicholas Ray ; Vietnam, the theme park (Hearts of darkness : a filmmaker's apocalypse) ; Sexual discourse (The piano) ; Hollywood radical (Malcolm X) ; Ace Ventura reconsidered ; The world according to Harvey and Bob (Smoke, the glass shield) ; Stupidity as redemption (Forrest Gump) ; Allusion profusion (Ed Wood, Pulp fiction).

[Part] three : Issues of ideology -- Alternatives. The problem with poetry : Leos Carax ; No stars, a must-see (The plot against Harry) ; The rattle of armor, the softness of flesh : Bresson's Lancelot du Lac ; The functions of a disease (Safe) ; England on the inside : the films of Mike Leigh -- Political subjects. The significance of sniggering : Zwigoff's Crumb ; Jean Eustache's La Maman et la putain ; Film writing degree zero : the marketplace and the university ; Tribal trouble (Atom Egoyan's Calendar) ; Us and them (Blood in the face) -- Other cinemas. Feudal attraction (Ju dou) ; The vision of the conquered (Kurosawa's Rhapsody in August) ; Searching for Taiwan (The puppet master) ; Inner space (Tarkovsky's Solaris) ; Tribal scars (Sembene's Black girl) -- Alternate histories. The seven Arkadins ; Tih-Minh, out 1 : on the nonreception of two French serials ; His twentieth century : Godard's Histoire(s) du cinema ; Pages from the Endfield file ; On second thoughs (Marker's The last bolshevik).

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