Interpreting films : studies in the historical reception of American cinema /
Employing a wide range of examples from Uncle Tom's Cabin and Birth of a Nation to Zelig and Personal Best, Janet Staiger argues that a historical examination of spectators' responses to films can make a valuable contribution to the history, criticism, and philosophy of cultural products....
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| Định dạng: | Licensed eBooks |
| Ngôn ngữ: | Tiếng Anh |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press
c1992.
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv131bwdc |
Mục lục:
- The use-value of reception studies
- Reception studies in other disciplines
- Reception studies in film and television
- Toward a historical materialist approach to reception studies
- Rethinking "primitive" cinema: intertextuality, the middle-class audience, and reception studies
- "The handmaiden of villainy": foolish wives, politics, gender orientation, and the other
- The birth of a nation: reconsidering its reception
- The logic of alternative readings: a star is born
- With the compliments of the auteur: art cinema and the complexities of its reading strategies
- Chameleon in the film, chameleons in the audience; or, where is parody? the case of zelig.