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Love in Contemporary Cinema

Love in Contemporary Cinema
Author: Benjamín de la Pava Vélez
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2021-07-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000409481

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This book looks at social representations of romantic love as portrayed in films and interpreted by their audiences, using cinema as a means for analysing the state of romantic love today, and the touchpoints and disconnects between its representation on screen and the lived experiences of film audiences. Through a media sociology lens, the book draws on analysis of five contemporary romantic films and the meanings brought to and made from them by socially and economically diverse audiences. Employing both textual analysis and primary interviews, the book contests overly pessimistic perspectives on modern intimacy while acknowledging and exploring some of the challenges, woes and changes that romantic love is experiencing in late capitalism. Concerns and debates over monogamy, the teleology romantic love and the division of labour in relationships percolate in this book’s examination of how audiences’ responses to these films reflect their attitudes and expectations regarding romantic love. This book will have great resonance for scholars and students of not just film studies and media studies, but also audience studies, media sociology, philosophy, gender and sexuality.


Falling in Love Again

Falling in Love Again
Author: Abbott And Deborah Jermyn (Eds) Stacey
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2009-01-19
Genre: Romantic comedy films
ISBN: 9786612619144

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This anthology updates, revisits and reflects on today's romantic comedies. It considers the films and issues that illustrate the diversity of the genre, from the queer pleasures of 'Miss Congeniality' and the rom-com persona of J-Lo and Bill Murray to high school prom-coms and indie romantic comedies.


Contemporary Hollywood Cinema

Contemporary Hollywood Cinema
Author: STEVE NEALE
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2013-04-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1135108765

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A comprehensive overview of the film industry in Hollywood today, Contemporary Hollywood Cinema brings together leading international cinema scholars to explore the technology, institutions, film makers and movies of contemporary American film making.


Falling in Love Again

Falling in Love Again
Author: Stacey Abbott
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2009
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

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This anthology updates, revisits and reflects on today's romantic comedies. It considers the films and issues that illustrate the diversity of the genre, from the queer pleasures of 'Miss Congeniality' and the rom-com persona of J-Lo and Bill Murray to high school prom-coms and indie romantic comedies.


Contemporary Cinema and 'Old Age'

Contemporary Cinema and 'Old Age'
Author: Josephine Dolan
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2018-02-06
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1137584025

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This book is the first to explore ‘old age’ in cinema at the intersection of gender, ageing, celebrity and genre studies. It takes its cue from the dual meanings of ‘silvering’ – economics and ageing – and explores shifting formulations of ‘old age’ and gender in contemporary cinema. Broad in its scope, the book establishes the importance of silver audiences to the survival of cinema exhibition while also forging connections between the pleasures of ‘old age’ films, consumer culture, the ‘economy of celebrity’ and the gendered silvering of stardom. The chapters examine gendered genres such as romantic comedies, action and heist movies, the prosthetics of costume, and CGI enabled age transformations. Through this analysis, Josephine Dolan teases out the different meanings of ageing masculinity and femininity offered in contemporary cinema. She identifies ageing femininity as the pathologised target of rejuvenation while masculine ageing is seen to enhance an enduring youthfulness. This book has interdisciplinary appeal and will engage scholars interested in ‘old age’ and gender representations in contemporary cinema.


Contemporary World Cinema

Contemporary World Cinema
Author: Shohini Chaudhuri
Publisher:
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2005
Genre: Motion pictures
ISBN:

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This book provides an overview of the cinemas of Europe, the Middle East, East Asia and South Asia, interpreting some of the recent developments as strategic responses to globalisation. Highlighting transnational and cross-cultural structures, influences and themes.


New Blood in Contemporary Cinema

New Blood in Contemporary Cinema
Author: Patricia Pisters
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2020-08-18
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 1474466974

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The book investigates contemporary women directors who put 'a poetics of horror' to new use in their work, expanding the range of gendered and racialized perspectives in the horror genre.


Passionate Love and Popular Cinema

Passionate Love and Popular Cinema
Author: Erica Todd
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2013-12-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137295384

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This book analyses the romantic drama and the way that passionate love is presented as the central storyline in popular cinema, drawing upon genre studies and sociology. Exploring the passionate love story as a cinematic form, it also contributes, through comparison, to research on the romantic comedy.


Masculinity in the Contemporary Romantic Comedy

Masculinity in the Contemporary Romantic Comedy
Author: John Alberti
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2013-09-11
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1136222898

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This volume addresses the growing obsolescence of traditional constructions of masculine identity in popular romantic comedies by proposing an approach that combines gender and genre theory to examine the ongoing radical reconstruction of gender roles in these films. Alberti creates a unified theory of gender role change in the movies that combines the insights of both poststructuralist gender and narrative genre theory, avoiding binary approaches to the study of gender representation. He establishes the current "crises" in both gender representation and genre development within romantic comedies as examples of experimentation and change towards narratives that feature more egalitarian and less essentialist constructions of gender.


Existentialism and Contemporary Cinema

Existentialism and Contemporary Cinema
Author: Jean-Pierre Boulé
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2012-09-15
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0857457292

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This is a volume of essays which addresses a relatively neglected topic and conceptual approach, and is of relevance across a range of interrelated areas, specifically film studies, French studies, existentialist studies, philosophy, modern cultural and media studies.