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Call No: 451-054(73) WIL
Author: Willis, Sharon
Place: Durham, N.C.
Publisher: Duke University Press
PubDate: 1997
PhysDes: 266 p. ; 24 cm
Subject: RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA; ACTION FILMS; GENDER AND THE CINEMA. USA; MEN IN FILMS; WOMEN IN FILMS; LEE, SPIKE; LYNCH, DAVID; TARANTINO, QUENTIN; DIE HARD (US, John McTiernan, 1988); LETHAL WEAPON [...] (US, Richard Donner, 1987-92); BASIC INSTINCT (US, Paul Verhoeven, 1992); THELMA & LOUISE (US, Ridley Scott, 1991); TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (US, James Cameron, 1991); WILD AT HEART (US, David Lynch, 1990); PULP FICTION (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1994); DO THE RIGHT THING (US, Spike Lee, 1989); FATAL ATTRACTION (US, Adrian Lyne, 1987)
Summary: In High Contrast, Sharon Willis examines the dynamic relationships between racial and sexual difference in Hollywood film from the 1980s and 1990s. Seizing on the way these differences are accentuated, sensationalized, and eroticized on the screen - most often with little apparent regard for the political context in which they operate - Willis restores that context through close readings of a range of movies from cinematic blockbusters to the work of the new auteurs, Spike Lee, David Lynch, and Quentin Tarantino
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-257) and index
ISBN: 0822320290 (cloth : acid-free paper); 082232041X (pbk. : acid-free paper)
LON: 97013147; 13158378
Contents: Part 1. Battles of the sexes -- 1. Mutilated Masculinties and Their Prostheses: Die Hards and Lethal Weapons -- 2. Insides Out: Public and Private Exchanges from Fatal Attraction to Basic Instinct -- 3. Combative Femininity: Thelma and Louise and Terminator 2 -- Part II. Ethnographies of the "White" Gaze -- 4. Do the Wrong Thing: David Lynch's Perverse Style -- 5. Tell the Right Story: Spike Lee and the Politics of Representative Style -- 6. Borrowed "Style": Quentin Tarantino's Figures of Masculinity

Call No: 81DUR WIL
Author: Willis, Sharon, 1955
Place: Urbana
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
PubDate: 1987
PhysDes: viii, 191 p. ; 24 cm
Subject: DURAS, MARGUERITE
Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 172-181
ISBN: 0252013352 (alk. paper)
LON: 86004289; 4474541

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Author: Hastie, Amelie; Jorrich, Lynne; Penely, Constance; Torres, Sasha; White, Patricia; Willis, Sharon
Publisher: Duke University Press
PubDate: 2004
Summary: "With almost two decades of work, from the critically acclaimed low-budget Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story to Far from Heaven (for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for screenwriting), Todd Haynes has established himself as one of the most important contemporary independent filmmakers in the United States. Often described as provocative, inventive, and groundbreaking, his work is celebrated for inaugurating New Queer Cinema—a term coined in 1992 to describe the emergence of films committed to queer culture. Despite the richness and complexity of Haynes’s work—which engages auteurs ranging from Chantal Akerman to Douglas Sirk and theorists from Judith Butler to Michel Foucault—relatively little scholarly work on it has been published. Stepping into this void, Todd Haynes: A Magnificent Obsession offers the first collection of scholarly essays exclusively devoted to Haynes’s entire oeuvre. Including critical essays by well-known and emerging scholars in television theory and feminist film, this special issue of Camera Obscura demonstrates Haynes’s engagement with history, feminism, queer culture, biography, and a range of artistic practices. In one essay a former professor of Haynes’s examines the depiction of women in many of his films, describing how Haynes revisits key questions and themes reminiscent of those invoked in the “woman’s film” genre of the 1940s and 1950s. Other essays address the representations of television and film in Far from Heaven, the aesthetics of pirated video copies of Superstar, Velvet Goldmine’s representation of the recent past, and the politics of abjection and marginalization in Poison and Safe."