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In Unlikely Couples, Thomas E. Wartenberg directly challenges the view that narrative cinema inherently supports the dominant social interests by examining the way popular films about ?unlikely couples? (a mismatched romantic union viewed as inappropriate due to its class, racial, or gender composition) explore, expose, and criticize societal attitudes, boundaries, and prejudices. The films under consideration?including King Kong, Pygmalion, It Happened One Night, Pretty Woman, White Palace, Some Like it Hot, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Mississippi Masala, Jungle Fever, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Desert Hearts, and The Crying Game?are examined both individually and as a whole to illustrate how the genre uses the figure of a transgressive couple to explore tensions in genre's use of the figure of a transgressive couple to condemn social hierarchy as well as to raise a range of significant philosophical topics.
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Love in motion pictures. --- Love in motion pictures --- Motion pictures
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At first glance, romance seems an improbable angle from which to write a cultural history of the German Democratic Republic. By most accounts the GDR was among the most dour and disciplined of socialist states, so devoted to the rigors of Stalinist aesthetics that the notion of an East German romantic comedy was more likely to generate punch lines than lines at the box office. But in fact, as John Urang shows in Legal Tender, love was freighted as a privileged site for the negotiation and reorganization of a surprising array of issues in East German public culture between 1949 and 1989. Through close readings of a diverse selection of films and novels from the former GDR, Urang offers an eye-opening account of the ideological stakes of love stories in East German culture. Throughout its forty-year existence the East German state was plagued with an ongoing problem of legitimacy. The love story's unique and unpredictable mix of stabilizing and subversive effects gave it a peculiar status in the cultural sphere. Urang shows how love stories could mediate the problem of social stratification, providing a language with which to discuss the experience of class antagonism without undermining the Party's legitimacy. But for the Party there was danger in borrowing legitimacy from the romantic plot: the love story's destabilizing influences of desire and drive could just as easily disrupt as reconcile. A unique contribution to German studies, Legal Tender offers remarkable insights into the uses and capacities of romance in modern Western culture.
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Modern European cinema and love examines nine European directors whose films contain stories about romantic love and marriage. The directors are Jean Renoir, Ingmar Bergman, Alain Resnais, Michelangelo Antonioni, Agnès Varda, François Truffaut, Federico Fellini, Jean-Luc Godard and Éric Rohmer. The book approaches questions of love and marriage from a philosophical perspective, applying the ideas of authors such as Stanley Cavell, Leo Bersani, Luce Irigaray and Alain Badiou, while also tracing key concepts from Freudian psychoanalysis. Each of the filmmakers engages deeply with notions of modern love and marriage, often in positive ways, but also in ways that question the institutions of love, marriage and the 'couple'.
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Romantic comedy films --- Love in motion pictures. --- History and criticism.
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Love in motion pictures. --- Romantic comedy films --- History and criticism.
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Love in motion pictures --- Romantic comedy films --- History and criticism
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In sieben Beiträgen werden neue Befunde zum Fragenkomplex Liebe, Geschlecht, Erotik, Sex in Film und Unterhaltungskultur vorgestellt. Thematisiert werden die Filmversionen und anderen Medienfassungen des Romanklassikers 'Wuthering Heights', die Sexkomödien im Hollywoodkino von 1955 bis 1965, der Zeichentrickfilm 'Yellow Submarine' mit den Beatles, die Geschlechterkonstruktion in den Filmen von Joel und Ethan Coen, der sogenannte Bollywoodfilm, der Skandalfilm 'Intimacy' und ein Vergleich der beiden Amüsiermeilen 'Reeperbahn' in Hamburg und 'Strip' in Las Vegas. Erotik meint hier nicht nur den jeweiligen Gegenstand, sondern auch die ästhetische Weise seiner Darstellung sowie das wissenschaftliche Verstehen – die Lust der Erkenntnis.
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