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Making Time in Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon

Art, History, and Empire

By: Maria Pramaggiore

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Making Time in Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon

Art, History, and Empire

By: Maria Pramaggiore

Considered by critics to be Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, Barry Lyndon has suffered from scholarly and popular neglect. Maria Pramaggiore argues that one key reason that this film remains unappreciated, even by Kubrick aficionados, is that its transnational and intermedial contexts have not been fully explored. Taking a novel approach, she looks at the film from a transnational perspective -- as a foreign production shot in Ireland and an adaptation of a British novel by an American director about an Irish subject. Pramaggiore argues that, in Barry Lyndon, Kubrick develops his richest philosophical mediation on cinema's capacity to mediate the real and foregrounds film's relationship to other technologies of visuality, including painting, photography, and digital media. By combining extensive research into the film's source novel, production and reception with systematic textual analysis and an engagement with several key issues in contemporary academic debate, this work promises not only to make a huge impact in the field of Kubrick studies, but also in 1970s filmmaking, cultural history and transnational film practice.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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144112554X

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9781441125545

Irish and African American Cinema

Identifying Others and Performing Identities, 1980-2000

By: Maria Pramaggiore

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Irish and African American Cinema

Identifying Others and Performing Identities, 1980-2000

By: Maria Pramaggiore

Focusing on two film traditions not normally studied together, Maria Pramaggiore examines more than two dozen Irish and African American films, including Do the Right Thing, In the Name of the Father, The Crying Game, Boyz N the Hood, The Snapper, and He Got Game, arguing that these films foreground practices of character identification that complicate essentialist notions of national and racial identity. The porous sense of self associated with moments of identification in these films offers a cinematic counterpart to W. E. B. Du Bois's potent concept of double consciousness, an epistemological standpoint derived from experiences of colonization, racialization, and cultural disruption. Characters in these films, Pramaggiore suggests, reject the national paradigm of insider and outsider in favor of diasporic both/and notions of self, thereby endorsing the postmodern concept of identity as performance.

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State University of New York Press

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0791480070

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9780791480076

Neil Jordan

By: Maria Pramaggiore

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Neil Jordan

By: Maria Pramaggiore

Best known for his enormously successful independent film The Crying Game, Irish director Neil Jordan has made sixteen feature films since 1982. Even after achieving commercial success and critical acclaim with such films as Interview with the Vampire and The Butcher Boy, Jordan remains a curiously elusive figure in the era of the celebrity filmmaker. Maria Pramaggiore addresses this conundrum by examining Jordan's distinctive style across a surprisingly broad range of genres and production contexts, including horror and gangster films, Irish-themed movies, and Hollywood remakes. Despite the striking diversity of Jordan's films, the director consistently returns to gothic themes of loss, violence, and madness. In her sophisticated examination of Mona Lisa, Michael Collins, and The Good Thief, Pramaggiore shows how Jordan presents these dark narratives with a uniquely Irish and postmodern sense of irony. This illuminating analysis of one of the cinema's most important artists will be of keen interest to movie enthusiasts as well as students and scholars of contemporary film.

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218

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University of Illinois Press

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0252075307

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9780252075308

The B Word

Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television

By: Maria San Filippo

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The B Word

Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television

By: Maria San Filippo

Often disguised in public discourse by terms like "gay," "homoerotic," "homosocial," or "queer," bisexuality is strangely absent from queer studies and virtually untreated in film and media criticism. Maria San Filippo aims to explore the central role bisexuality plays in contemporary screen culture, establishing its importance in representation, marketing, and spectatorship. By examining a variety of media genres including art cinema, sexploitation cinema and vampire films, "bromances," and series television, San Filippo discovers "missed moments" where bisexual readings of these texts reveal a more malleable notion of subjectivity and eroticism. San Filippo's work moves beyond the subject of heteronormativity and responds to "compulsory monosexuality," where it's not necessarily a couple's gender that is at issue, but rather that an individual chooses one or the other. The B Word transcends dominant relational formation (gay, straight, or otherwise) and brings a discursive voice to the field of queer and film studies.

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Indiana University Press

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0253008921

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9780253008923

The Suspense of Horror and the Horror of Suspense

By: Maria Anastasova

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The Suspense of Horror and the Horror of Suspense

By: Maria Anastasova

This book presents a detailed academic study of suspense building in Stephen King’s horror novels The Shining and Carrie and their respective film adaptations. Two film versions of each book are taken into consideration – one released immediately after the novel publication and one that appeared decades later. After providing a general idea of what suspense as a phenomenon related to fiction is, the study establishes some repeated plot-bound suspense motifs and episodes in the literary works, and traces their development in the films in order to demonstrate the similarities and differences in the techniques of achieving suspense in literature and in cinema. The model detailed here can also be used for individual or comparative suspense analysis of other literary or cinematic works.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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152751904X

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9781527519046

Alejandro González Iñárritu

By: Celestino Deleyto,Maria del Mar Azcona

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Alejandro González Iñárritu

By: Celestino Deleyto,Maria del Mar Azcona

This in-depth study of Mexican film director Alejandro González Iñárritu explores his role in moving Mexican filmmaking from a traditional nationalist agenda towards a more global focus. Working in the United States and in Mexico, Iñárritu crosses national borders while his movies break the barriers of distribution, production, narration, and style. His features also experiment with transnational identity as characters emigrate and settings change. In studying the international scope of Iñárritu's influential films Amores Perros, 21 Grams, and Babel, Celestino Deleyto and María del Mar Azcona trace common themes such as human suffering and redemption, chance, and accidental encounters. The authors also analyze the director's powerful visual style and his consistent use of multiple characters and a fragmented narrative structure. The book concludes with a new interview with Iñárritu that touches on the themes and subject matter of his chief works.

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University of Illinois Press

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025209011X

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9780252090110

Neil Jordan

By: Maria Pramaggiore

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Making Time in Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon

Art, History, and Empire

By: Maria Pramaggiore

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Irish and African American Cinema

Identifying Others and Performing Identities, 1980-2000

By: Maria Pramaggiore

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Irish and African American Cinema

Identifying Others and Performing Identities, 1980-2000

By: Maria Pramaggiore

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Book's by Maria Pramaggiore

Making Time in Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon

Making Time in Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon

Irish and African American Cinema

Irish and African American Cinema

Neil Jordan

Neil Jordan

The B Word

The B Word

The Suspense of Horror and the Horror of Suspense

The Suspense of Horror and the Horror of Suspense

Alejandro González Iñárritu

Alejandro González Iñárritu

Neil Jordan

Neil Jordan

Making Time in Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon

Making Time in Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon

Irish and African American Cinema

Irish and African American Cinema

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