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Todd Haynes has emerged from the trenches of independent American film in the 1990s to become one of the twenty-first century's most audacious filmmakers. In a series of smart, informative essays, this book traces his career from its roots in New Queer Cinema to the Oscar-nominated Far from Heaven (2002). Along the way, it covers such landmark films asPoison (1991), Safe (1995), and Velvet Goldmine (1998). Contributors look at these films from a variety of angles, including his debts to the avant-garde and such noted precursors as Rainer Werner Fassbinder; his adventurous uses of melodrama; and his incisive portrayals of contemporary life.

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This book argues that Britain is gripped by an endemic panic about the position of children in society – which frames them as, alternately, victims and threats. It argues that the press and primary definers, from politicians to the police, are key players in promoting this discourse. Using a mix of intergenerational focus-groups and analysis of online newspaper discussion-threads, the book demonstrates that, far from being passive consumers of this agenda-setting 'juvenile panic' discourse, ordinary citizens (particularly parents) actively contribute to it – and, in so doing, sustain and reinforce it. A series of interviews with newspaper journalists illuminates the role news media play in fanning the flames of panic, by exposing the commercial drivers conspiring to promote dramatic narratives about children. The book concludes that today's juvenile panic – though far from the first to grip Britain – is a projection of the wide-scale breakdown of social trust between individuals in neoliberal societies.

Children --- Abused children --- Juvenile delinquents --- Trust --- Anxiety --- Social Welfare & Social Work - General --- Social Welfare & Social Work --- Social Sciences --- Crimes against --- Press coverage --- Angst --- Anxieties --- Anxiousness --- Trust (Psychology) --- Delinquents --- Delinquents, Juvenile --- Juvenile offenders --- Offenders, Juvenile --- Offenders, Youthful --- Young offenders --- Youthful offenders --- Battered children --- Child abuse victims --- Maltreated children --- Victims of child abuse --- Childhood --- Kids (Children) --- Pedology (Child study) --- Youngsters --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Emotions --- Criminals --- Youth --- Victims of crimes --- Adult child abuse victims --- Child abuse --- Age groups --- Families --- Life cycle, Human --- Stress (Psychology) --- Agitation (Psychology) --- Fear --- Worry --- Communication. --- Youth-Social life and customs. --- Crime—Sociological aspects. --- Juvenile delinquents. --- Journalism. --- Media and Communication. --- Youth Culture. --- Crime and Society. --- Youth Offending and Juvenile Justice. --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Sociology --- Youth—Social life and customs. --- Writing (Authorship) --- Literature --- Publicity --- Fake news

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The newest volume in the Film Theory in Practice Series, Auteur Theory and My Son John offers a concise introduction to authorship and auteur theory in jargon-free language. The book goes on to show this theory can be deployed to interpret Leo McCarey's notorious but undervalued film My Son John, which critics deemed a clear-cut failure, and the auteurists declared a masterpiece. James Morrison traces the development of auteur theory through its emergence in the pages of the French film journal Cahiers du cinema and the complex permutations it undergoes subsequently. This history will help students and scholars who are eager to learn more about this important area of film theory. The analysis of My Son John shows how auteur theory enables modes of interpretation and discovers levels of meaning otherwise unavailable.

#SBIB:309H520 --- #SBIB:309H1323 --- Audiovisuele communicatie: algemene werken --- Films met een amusementsfunctie en/of esthetische functie: auteurs --- Auteur theory (Motion pictures) --- McCarey, Leo --- Criticism and interpretation. --- My son John (Motion picture)

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In Passport to Hollywood, James Morrison examines a series of Hollywood films by directors from European art-cinemas. Drawing widely on current research in film theory, film history, and cultural studies, he traces the influence of European filmmakers in Hollywood from the 1920's to the 1980's and illuminates the relation between modernism and mass-culture in American movies. By interpreting important American films, Morrison also shows how these films illustrate key issues of cultural hierarchy and national culture over fifty years of American cinema. In addition, he explores the complex and often contradictory ways that these Hollywood movies conceptualize ideas about "foreignness." Using close viewings, Morrison demonstrates new connections among modernism, postmodernism, and American movies.

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