Movies as PoliticsUniversity of California Press, 30 jun 1997 - 359 páginas In this new collection of reviews and essays, Jonathan Rosenbaum focuses on the political and social dynamics of the contemporary movie scene. Rosenbaum, widely regarded as the most gifted contemporary American commentator on the cinema, explores the many links between film and our ideological identities as individuals and as a society. Readers will find revealing examinations of, for example, racial stereotyping in the debates surrounding Do the Right Thing, key films from Africa, China, Japan, and Taiwan, Hollywood musicals and French serials, and the cultural amnesia accompanying cinematic treatments of the Russian Revolution, the civil rights movement, and the Vietnam War. From Schindler's List, Star Wars, Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump, The Piano, and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective to the maverick careers of Orson Welles, Jacques Tati, Nicholas Ray, Chantal Akerman, Todd Haynes, and Andrei Tarkovsky, Rosenbaum offers a polemically pointed survey that makes clear the high stakes involved in every aspect of filmmaking and filmgoing. |
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Say the Right Thing DO THE RIGHT THING | 13 |
Buñuels THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE | 22 |
Polanski and the American Experiment BITTER MOON | 28 |
Tatis Democracy | 37 |
Kieslowskis | 47 |
Altman and the Spirit of Improvisation CALIFORNIA SPLIT | 57 |
On LATCHO DROM | 69 |
Four Books on the Hollywood Musical | 75 |
Stupidity as Redemption FORREST GUMP | 166 |
Leos Carax | 183 |
No Stars a MustSee THE PLOT AGAINST HARRY | 195 |
Bressons LANCELOT DU | 201 |
The Functions of a Disease SAFE | 208 |
Zwigoffs CRUMB | 223 |
Jean Eustaches LA MAMAN ET LA PUTAIN | 231 |
Tribal Trouble Atom Egoyans CALENDAR | 244 |
Missing the Target | 91 |
Spielbergs Gentiles SCHINDLERS LIST | 98 |
The Solitary Pleasures of STAR WARS | 105 |
A Perversion of the Past MISSISSIPPI BURNING | 118 |
The Cinema of Nicholas | 125 |
Sexual Discourse THE PIANO | 140 |
ACE VENTURA Reconsidered | 154 |
Feudal Attraction JU DOU | 257 |
The Vision of the Conquered Kurosawas RHAPSODY IN AUGUST | 264 |
The Seven ARKADINS | 291 |
On the Nonreception of Two French Serials | 303 |
Godards HISTOIRES DU CINEMA | 318 |
On Second Thoughts Markers the last bolsHEVIK | 338 |
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