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Autism in film and television : on the island / edited by Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer Austin: University of Texas Press, April 2022.
Call No: 747.77(73) AUTAuthor: Pomerance, Murray ; Palmer, R. Barton Edition: 2022Place: AustinPublisher: University of Texas PressPubDate: April 2022PhysDes: 324 pages ; 23.5 cmSubject: PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES IN FILMS ; STAR TREK - THE NEXT GENERATION [TV] (US, 1987-1994) ; LIFE, ANIMATED (FR/US, Roger Ross Williams, 2016) ; RAIN MAN (US, Barry Levinson, 1988) ; GOOD DOCTOR, THE [TV] ( US, 2017 - ) ; BIG SHORT, THE (US, Adam McKay, 2015) ; STRANGER THINGS [TV] (US, 2016) ; SOCIAL NETWORK, THE (US, David Fincher, 2010) ; NIGHTCRAWLER (US, Dan Gilroy, 2014) ; ACCOUNTANT, THE (US, Gavin O'Connor, 2016) ; BEING THERE (US, Hal Ashby, 1979) ; PHANTOM THREAD (US, Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017) ; DAVID AND LISA (US, Frank Perry, 1962) ; MARY POPPINS (US, Robert Stevenson, 1964) Summary: Global awareness of autism has skyrocketed since the 1980s, and popular culture has caught on, with film and television producers developing ever more material featuring autistic characters. Autism in Film and Television brings together more than a dozen essays on depictions of autism, exploring how autistic characters are signified in media and how the reception of these characters informs societal understandings of autism.
Editors Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer have assembled a pioneering examination of autism’s portrayal in film and television. Contributors consider the various means by which autism has been expressed in films such as Phantom Thread, Mercury Rising, and Life Animated and in television and streaming programs including Atypical, Stranger Things, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Community. Across media, the figure of the brilliant, accomplished, and “quirky” autist has proven especially appealing. Film and television have thus staked out a progressive position on neurodiversity by insisting on screen time for autism but have done so while frequently ignoring the true diversity of autistic experience. As a result, this volume is a welcome celebration of nonjudgmental approaches to disability, albeit one that is still freighted with stereotypes and elisions. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9781477324912Contents: -- -- Preface: Two Meditations: Who Am I? (Murray Pomerance) Before Neurodiversity (R. Barton Palmer) -- 1. Autistic Android? The Curious Instance of Star Trek’s Data (Ina Rae Hark) -- 2. Life, Animated: Adapting a Book about a Hero with Autism (Rebecca Bell-Metereau) -- 3. Where Is the Autism in Rain Man? (Daniel Sacco ) -- 4. The Good Doctor: Images of Autism and Augmented Intelligence (Burke Hilsabeck) -- 5. Oddity and Catastrophe in The Big Short (Jason Jacobs) -- 6. Diagnosing the Detective: Sherlock Holmes and Autism in Contemporary Television (Christina Wilkins) -- 7. She’s So Unusual: The Autist in Stranger Things (Brenda Austin-Smith) -- 8. Autism, Performance, and Sociality: Isolated Attention in The Social Network (Elliott Logan) -- 9. Hidden Worlds of Female Autism (Daniel Varndell) -- 10. Eye Contact in Juárez: Borderline Empathy and the Autistic Detective (Douglas McFarland) -- 11. The Creative Evolution and Reception of Netflix’s Atypical (Christine Becker) -- 12. Community’s Human Laugh Track: Neurodiversity in a Metamodern Sitcom (Joshua Schulze) -- 13. Portrait of the Autist as a Young Man (Fincina Hopgood) -- 14. Due Diligence: Exploring ASD in Nightcrawler and The Accountant (Dominic Lennard) -- 15. Mind the Gap: Autistic Viewpoint in Film (Alex Clayton) -- 16. Performative Restraint and the Challenges of Empathy in Being There and Phantom Thread (Matthew Cipa) -- 17. “A Spoonful of Sugar”: Watching Movies Autistically (Mark Osteen) -- 18. David and Lisa: The Healing Power of the Group (R. Barton Palmer) -- 19. Jesse: Torture That Autist (Murray Pomerance) -- Works Cited and Consulted -- Photo Captions and Credits -- Contributors -- Index.
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Cycles, sequels, spin-offs, remakes, and reboots : multiplicities in film and television / edited by Amanda Ann Klein and R. Barton Palmer Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2016.
Call No: 753.81 CYCAuthor: Klein, Amanda Ann (ed.) ; Palmer, R. Barton (ed.) Edition: First editionSource: USPlace: Austin, TXPublisher: University of Texas PressPubDate: 2016PhysDes: vi, 357 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cmSubject: FILM ; CRITICISM ; REMAKES ; SEQUELS Summary: "With sequels, prequels, remakes, spin-offs, or copies of successful films or franchises dominating film and television production, it sometimes seems as if Hollywood is incapable of making an original film or TV show. These textual pluralities or multiplicities—while loved by fans who flock to them in droves—tend to be dismissed by critics and scholars as markers of the death of high culture. Cycles, Sequels, Spin-offs, Remakes, and Reboots takes the opposite view, surveying a wide range of international media multiplicities for the first time to elucidate their importance for audiences, industrial practices, and popular culture.
The essays in this volume offer a broad picture of the ways in which cinema and television have used multiplicities to streamline the production process, and to capitalize on and exploit viewer interest in previously successful and/or sensational story properties. An impressive lineup of established and emerging scholars talk seriously about forms of multiplicity that are rarely discussed as such, including direct-to-DVD films made in Nigeria, cross-cultural Japanese horror remakes, YouTube fan-generated trailer mash-ups, and 1970s animal revenge films. They show how considering the particular bonds that tie texts to one another allows us to understand more about the audiences for these texts and why they crave a version of the same story (or character or subject) over and over again. These findings demonstrate that, far from being lowbrow art, multiplicities are actually doing important cultural work that is very worthy of serious study." -- BOOK BACK COVER BLURBNotes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index; Also published electronicallyISBN: 9781477308172Donation: Senses of cinemaContents: -- ch. 1 Introduction / Amanda Ann Klein and R. Barton Palmer -- ch. 2 The Kissing Cycle, Mashers, and (White) Women in the American City / Amanda Ann Klein -- ch. 3 Descended from Hercules: Masculine Anxiety in the Peplum / Robert Rushing -- ch. 4 The American Postwar Semidocumentary Cycle: Factual Dramatizations / R. Barton Palmer -- ch. 5 Cycle Consciousness and the White Audience in Black Film Writing: The 1949--1950 "Race Problem" Cycle and the African American Press / Steven Doles -- ch. 6 Vicious Cycle: Jaws and Revenge-of-Nature Films of the 1970s / Constantine Verevis -- ch. 7 Familiar Otherness: On the Contemporary Cross-Cultural Remake / Chelsey Crawford -- ch. 8 Anime's Dangerous Innocents: Millennial Anxieties, Gender Crises, and the Shojo Body as a Weapon / Elizabeth Birmingham -- ch. 9 It's Only a Film, Isn't It? Policy Paranoia Thrillers of the War on Terror / Vincent M. Gaine -- ch. 10 Doing Dumbledore: Actor-Character Bonding and Accretionary Performance / Murray Pomerance -- ch. 11 A Lagosian Lady Gaga: Cross-Cultural Identification in Nollywood's Anti-Biopic Cycle / Noah Tsika -- ch. 12 Re-solving Crimes: A Cycle of TV Detective Partnerships / Sarah Kornfield -- ch. 13 Smart TV: Showtime's "Bad Mommies" Cycle / Claire Perkins -- ch. 14 My Generation(s): Cycles, Branding, and Renewal in E4's Skins / Faye Woods -- ch. 15 Extended Attractions: Recut Trailers, Film Promotion, and Audience Desire / Kathleen Williams -- ch. 16 Retro-Remaking: The 1980s Film Cycle in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema / Kathleen Loock -- ch. 17 I Can't Lead This Vacation Anymore: Mumblecore's American Man / Amy Borden -- ch. 18 Serialized Killers: Prebooting Horror in Bates Motel and Hannibal / Andrew Scahill -- list of contributors -- index --
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Joel and Ethan Coen / R. Barton Palmer Urbana, Ill ; Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2004.
Call No: 81COE PALAuthor: Palmer, R. Barton Source: USPlace: Urbana, Ill ; ChicagoPublisher: University of Illinois PressPubDate: 2004PhysDes: 207 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.Series: Contemporary film directors / edited by James NaremoreSubject: DIRECTORS. USA ; CRITICISM ; COEN, JOEL & ETHAN Notes: Includes filmography (pp. [193]-199).
Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]) and indexISBN: 0252071859 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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A little solitaire : John Frankenheimer and American Film / edited by Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, c2011.
Call No: 81FRA LITAuthor: Palmer, R. Barton(ed) ; Pomerance, Murray(ed) Source: USPlace: New Brunswick, NJPublisher: Rutgers University PressPubDate: c2011PhysDes: ix, 312 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: FILM. USA ; FRANKENHEIMER, JOHN ; ALL FALL DOWN (US, John Frankenheimer, 1962) ; BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ (US, John Frankenheimer, 1962) ; FIXER, THE (US, John Frankenheimer, 1968) ; GYPSY MOTHS, THE (US, John Frankenheimer, 1969) ; ICEMAN COMETH, THE (US, John Frankenheimer, 1980) ; MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, THE (US, John Frankenheimer, 1962) ; RONIN (US, John Frankenheimer, 1998) ; SECONDS (US, John Frankenheimer, 1966) Summary: "Think about some commercially successful film masterpieces - The Manchurian Candidate, Seven Days in May, Seconds. Then consider some lesser known, yet equally compelling cinematic achievements- The Fixer, The Gypsy Moths, Path to War. These triumphs are the work of the best known and most highly regarded Hollywood driector to emerge from live TV drama in the 1950s- five-time Emmy award-winner John Frankenheimer. Although Frankenheimer was a pioneer in the genre of political thrillers, who embraced the antimodernist critique of contemporary society, some of his later films did not receive the attention they deserved. Many critics claimed that at a midpoint in his career he lost his touch. World-renowned film scholars put this myth to rest in A Little Solitaire, which offers the only multidisciplinary critical account of Frankenheimer's oeuvre. They emphasize his deep and passionate engagement- not only with national politics and people's irrepressible need to assert their rights against those who would reduce them to silence and anonymity, but also with a mise-en-scene filmd from just the right angles. " -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-298), filmography (p. 279-286) and indexISBN: 9780813550602Contents: -- acknowledgments -- Introduction : why don't you pass the time by playing a little solitaire? / R. Barton Palmer and Murray Pomerance -- Thrills. Murdered souls, conspiratorial cabals: Frankenheimer's paranoia films / David Sterritt -- The Manchurian candidate: compromised agency and uncertain causality / Charles Ramirez Berg -- Stealth, sexuality, and cult status in The Manchurian candidate and Seconds / Rebecca Bell-Metereau -- The train: John Frankenheimer's "Rape of Europa" / Matthew H. Bernstein -- Action and abstraction in Ronin / Stephen Prince -- Politics. "Late Frankenheimer/political Frankenheimer" / Douglas McFarland -- John Frankenheimer's "War on terror" / Corey K. Creekmur -- The burning season: environmentalism versus progress? / Robin L. Murray -- Pictures and prizes: Le Grand Prix de Rome and Grand Prix / Victoria Duckett -- Families. Crashing in: Birdman of Alcatraz / Tom Conley -- Walking the line with the fille-fatale / Linda Ruth Williams -- Live TV, filmed theater, and the new Hollywood: John Frankenheimer's The Iceman cometh / James Morrison -- Ashes, ashes: structuring emptiness in All fall down / Murray Pomerance -- Secrets. An American in Paris: John Frankenheimer's impossible object / Jerry Mosher -- Shot from the sky: The gypsy moths and the end of something / Dennis Bingham -- Frankenheimer and the science fiction/horror film / Christine Cornea -- -- The fixer: a Jew who could be any man, any time, anywhere / R. Barton Palmer -- Jonah / Bill Krohn -- John Frankenheimer's Directorial Career: a chronology -- works cited and consulted -- contributors -- index --
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