Film Theory and Contemporary Hollywood Movies Book

illustrations vii

acknowledgments ix

introduction warren buckland 1

part 1 new practices, new aesthetics 17

1 new hollywood, new millennium thomas schatz 19

2 the supernatural in neo-baroque hollywood sean cubitt 47

3 man without a movie camera-movies without men: towards a posthumanist cinema? william brown 66

4 movie-games and game-movies: towards an aesthetics of transmediality douglas brown tanya krzywinska 86

5 saw heard: musical sound design in contemporary cinema k.j. donnelly 103

6 the shape of 1999: the stylistics of american movies at the end of the century barry salt 124

7 tales of epiphany and entropy: paranarrative worlds on youtube thomas elsaesser 150

part 2 feminism, philosophy, and queer theory 173

8 reformulating the symbolic universe: kill bill and tarantino's transcultural imaginary saa vojković 175

9 (broke) back to the mainstream: queer theory and queer cinemas today harry m. benshoff 192

10 demystifying deleuze: french philosophy meets contemporary u.s. cinema david martin-jones 214

part 3 rethinking affects, narration, fantasy, and realism 235

11 trauma, pleasure, and emotion in the viewing of titanic: a cognitive approach carl plantinga 237

12 mementos of contemporary american cinema: identifying and responding to the unreliable narrator in the movie theater volker ferenz 257

13 fantasy audiences versus fantasy audiences martin barker 286

14 "what is there really in the world?" forms of theory, evidence and truth in fahrenheit 9/11: a philosophical and intutionist realist approach ian aitken 310

contributors 331

index 335