Middlebrow cinema
"Middlebrow Cinema challenges an often uninterrogated hostility to middlebrow culture that frequently dismisses it as conservative, which it often is not, and feminized or middle-class, which it often is. The volume defines the term relationally against shifting concepts of ‘high’ and ‘low’, an...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London, [England] ; New York :
Routledge
2016.
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| Colección: | Remapping world cinema (Routledge (Firm))
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009421110806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Middlebrow Cinema; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Textual Note; List of Contributors; Introduction. Approaching the Middlebrow: Audience; Text; Institution; PART I Mapping Middlebrow; 1 Hollywood Middlebrow: A Dialectical approach to 1940s Cinema; Middlebrow/Middle-Class/Moyen; Canonical/Non-Canonical Film History; Screenplay/Direction; Drama/Melodrama; Conclusion: Then/Now; Bibliography; 2 Middlebrow Taste: Towards a New Middle Class - a Certain Tendency of 1950s French Cinema; A New Middle Class; 1950s Film Attendance
- Middlebrow1950s Film: Genres, Stars, Prizes; Literary Adaptations; Adaptations of the Classical Literary Tradition; Adaptations of Modern Classics; Adaptations of Middlebrow Texts: Thrillers; Adaptations of Middlebrow Texts: Comedies; Adaptations of Middlebrow Texts: Dramas; Adaptations of Middlebrow Texts: Social-Realism; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; 3 Mumbai Middlebrow: Ways of Thinking about the Middle Ground in Hindi Cinema; Defining the Middlebrow; Hindi Cinema and its Other Brows; Middlebrow and the Middle Classes: Class and Language; The History of the Middlebrow in Hindi Cinema
- The Middlebrow in Today's BollywoodThe Upper Middlebrow; Example 1: Aamir Khan and PK - Challenging Beliefs; Example 2: Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Black - Addressing Social Issues; Example 3: Anurag Kashyap and Gangs of Wasseypur - Knowing Intertextuality; Example 4: Vikramaditya Motwane and Lootera / The Robber* (2013) - Heritage Film; Example 5: Karan Johar, Zoya Akhtar, Dibakar Banerjee, Anurag Kashyap and Bombay Talkies - Self-reflectivity; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; PART II Case Studies; 4 Time and the Middlebrow in 1940s British Cinema; Ealing Films; Gainsborough Costume Cycle
- MusicalConclusion; Bibliography; 5 Rehearsing for Democracy in Dictatorship Spain: Middlebrow Period Drama 1970-77; Cycle of Middlebrow Period Drama 1970-77; Middlebrow Audience: 'Raising Up a Dejected Spanish Cinema'; Middlebrow Film and its Pedagogical Role: 'A Mirror for Today's Realities'; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; 6 The Mexican Romantic Sex Comedy: The Emergence of Mexican Middlebrow Filmmaking in the 1990s; The middlebrow and Mexican Film Culture: An Introduction; Mexican Film Culture of the 1990s; Case Study 1: Love in the Time of Hysteria; Case Study 2: Sex, Shame and Tears
- ConclusionNotes; Bibliography; 7 Wealth and Justice: Contemporary Chinese Middlebrow Cinema; Introduction; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; 8 Counter-Heritage, Middlebrow and the Fiction Patrimoniale: Reframing 'Middleness' in the Contemporary French Historical Film; Counter-Heritage and the Middlebrow; Days of Glory: The Immediacy and Allegiance of the Middlebrow; Black Venus: Entrenching Hierarchies of Film Art and Cultural Value; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; 9 Radical Politics, Middlebrow Cinema: Salvador (Puig Antich) and the Search for a New Consensus
- The Return of Politics as History in European Heritage Cinema
