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American Eccentric Cinema

Wilkins, Kim
Innbundet / 2019 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781501336911
Publisert
2019-02-21
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic USA
Vekt
472 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
224

Forfatter
Wilkins, Kim

Om bidragsyterne

Kim Wilkins is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Screen Cultures at the University of Oslo, Norway. Her current research examines national and cultural identity in post-reunification Berlin screen cultures. She has published widely on American indie cinema, particularly the films of Wes Anderson and Spike Jonze.

American Eccentric Cinema

Wilkins, Kim
Innbundet / 2019 / Engelsk
Wilkins, Kim
Innbundet / 2019 / Engelsk
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Since the late 1990s a new language has emerged in film scholarship and criticism in response to the popularity of American directors such as Wes Anderson, Charlie Kaufman, and David O. Russell. Increasingly, adjectives like ‘quirky’, ‘cute’, and ‘smart’ are used to describe these American films, with a focus on their ironic (and sometimes deliberately comical) stories, character situations and tones. Kim Wilkins argues that, beyond the seemingly superficial descriptions, ‘American eccentric cinema’ presents a formal and thematic eccentricity that is distinct to the American context. She distinguishes these films from mainstream Hollywood cinema as they exhibit irregularities in characterization, tone, and setting, and deviate from established generic conventions. Each chapter builds a case for this position through detailed film analyses and comparisons to earlier American traditions, such as the New Hollywood cinema of the 1960s and 1970s. American Eccentric Cinema promises to challenge the notion of irony in American contemporary cinema, and questions the relationship of irony to a complex national and individual identity.
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Acknowledgements Introduction Neoliberal Citizenship and the Eccentric Locating the Eccentric in Cinema New Hollywood and Eccentric Connections Chapter One: Defining American Eccentricity Indie and Eccentricity American Eccentricity and Irony Anxiety Eccentricity Chapter Two: Road Films and National Identity American Eccentricity and Genre The Eccentric Road Film: From Easy Rider to The Darjeeling Limited The Road and Kaufman’s Mind Trips Chapter Three: Overtly Cinematic Characterization Overtly Cinematic Characters and Audience Identification Wes Anderson and Overtly Cinematic Characterization Eccentric or ‘Smart’ Characterization? Wes Anderson’s Eccentric Characters Chapter Four: Hyper-Dialogue and the Eccentric Manner The Shift from New Hollywood Naturalism to Eccentric Hyper-Dialogue Dialogue and Convention Hyper-Dialogue and Performance Hyper-Dialogue as Dramatic Function Hyper-Dialogue and Sincerity Chapter Five: Eccentric Worlds Eccentric Deviations from Realism Eccentricity and the Intertextual World Eccentric Cities: Magnolia Conclusion: Beyond Eccentricity Ripples of Eccentricity Outside the Box Index Filmography Bibliography
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[Wilkins] provides readers with thought-provoking and perspective-changing ideas of eccentric cinema and its motives.
Identifies a recent influential movement in American filmmaking that challenges the long accepted function of irony in the formation of an American national identity.
Presents a detailed and original analysis of a contemporary, popular subgenre of cinema

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Since the late 1990s a new language has emerged in film scholarship and criticism in response to the popularity of American directors such as Wes Anderson, Charlie Kaufman, and David O. Russell. Increasingly, adjectives like ‘quirky’, ‘cute’, and ‘smart’ are used to describe these American films, with a focus on their ironic (and sometimes deliberately comical) stories, character situations and tones. Kim Wilkins argues that, beyond the seemingly superficial descriptions, ‘American eccentric cinema’ presents a formal and thematic eccentricity that is distinct to the American context. She distinguishes these films from mainstream Hollywood cinema as they exhibit irregularities in characterization, tone, and setting, and deviate from established generic conventions. Each chapter builds a case for this position through detailed film analyses and comparisons to earlier American traditions, such as the New Hollywood cinema of the 1960s and 1970s. American Eccentric Cinema promises to challenge the notion of irony in American contemporary cinema, and questions the relationship of irony to a complex national and individual identity.
Les mer
Acknowledgements Introduction Neoliberal Citizenship and the Eccentric Locating the Eccentric in Cinema New Hollywood and Eccentric Connections Chapter One: Defining American Eccentricity Indie and Eccentricity American Eccentricity and Irony Anxiety Eccentricity Chapter Two: Road Films and National Identity American Eccentricity and Genre The Eccentric Road Film: From Easy Rider to The Darjeeling Limited The Road and Kaufman’s Mind Trips Chapter Three: Overtly Cinematic Characterization Overtly Cinematic Characters and Audience Identification Wes Anderson and Overtly Cinematic Characterization Eccentric or ‘Smart’ Characterization? Wes Anderson’s Eccentric Characters Chapter Four: Hyper-Dialogue and the Eccentric Manner The Shift from New Hollywood Naturalism to Eccentric Hyper-Dialogue Dialogue and Convention Hyper-Dialogue and Performance Hyper-Dialogue as Dramatic Function Hyper-Dialogue and Sincerity Chapter Five: Eccentric Worlds Eccentric Deviations from Realism Eccentricity and the Intertextual World Eccentric Cities: Magnolia Conclusion: Beyond Eccentricity Ripples of Eccentricity Outside the Box Index Filmography Bibliography
Les mer
[Wilkins] provides readers with thought-provoking and perspective-changing ideas of eccentric cinema and its motives.
Identifies a recent influential movement in American filmmaking that challenges the long accepted function of irony in the formation of an American national identity.
Presents a detailed and original analysis of a contemporary, popular subgenre of cinema

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781501336911
Publisert
2019-02-21
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic USA
Vekt
472 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
224

Forfatter
Wilkins, Kim

Om bidragsyterne

Kim Wilkins is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Screen Cultures at the University of Oslo, Norway. Her current research examines national and cultural identity in post-reunification Berlin screen cultures. She has published widely on American indie cinema, particularly the films of Wes Anderson and Spike Jonze.

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