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American eccentric cinema
- Title
- American eccentric cinema / Kim Wilkins.
- Author
- Wilkins, Kim, 1986-
- Publication
- New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2019.
- ©2019
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- Description
- vi, 214 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- Since the late 1990s a new language has emerged in film scholarship and criticism in response to the popularity of American directors such as Wes Anderson, Charlie Kaufman, and David O. Russell. Increasingly, adjectives like 'quirky', 'cute', and 'smart' are used to describe these American films, with a focus on their ironic (and sometimes deliberately comical) stories, character situations and tones. Kim Wilkins argues that, beyond the seemingly superficial descriptions, Àmerican eccentric cinema' presents a formal and thematic eccentricity that is distinct to the American context. She distinguishes these films from mainstream Hollywood cinema as they exhibit irregularities in characterization, tone, and setting, and deviate from established generic conventions. Each chapter builds a case for this position through detailed film analyses and comparisons to earlier American traditions, such as the New Hollywood cinema of the 1960s and 1970s. American Eccentric Cinema promises to challenge the notion of irony in American contemporary cinema, and questions the relationship of irony to a complex national and individual identity.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-209), filmography (pages 195-199) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Defining American eccentricity -- Road films and national identity -- Overtly cinematic characterization -- Hyper-dialogue and the eccentric manner -- Eccentric worlds -- Conclusion : beyond eccentricity.
- Call Number
- MFL 19-2616
- ISBN
- 9781501336911
- 1501336916
- 9781501336935 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781501336928 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781501336942 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2018059378
- 40028945528
- OCLC
- 1077626270
- Author
- Wilkins, Kim, 1986- author.
- Title
- American eccentric cinema / Kim Wilkins.
- Publisher
- New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-209), filmography (pages 195-199) and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40028945528
- Research Call Number
- MFL 19-2616