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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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A dream of Hitchcock / Murray Pomerance Albany: State University of New York Press, 2019.
Call No: 81 HIT POMAuthor: Pomerance, Murray Place: AlbanyPublisher: State University of New York PressPubDate: 2019PhysDes: 274 pages : illustrated ; 24cmSubject: HITCHCOCK, ALFRED ; STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1951) ; REAR WINDOW (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1954) ; SABOTEUR (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1942) ; REBECCA (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1940) ; TO CATCH A THIEF (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1955) ; FAMILY PLOT (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1976) ; DREAMS IN FILMS Summary: A Dream of Hitchcock examines the recurring motif of the dream in Hitchcock’s work—dreamscapes, dream processes, the dream effect—by focusing on close readings of six celebrated but often misinterpreted films: Strangers on a Train, Rebecca, Saboteur, Rear Window, To Catch a Thief, and Family Plot. The Hitchcockian dream, as invoked here, is not so much a dream as it is a way of understanding, in its dramatic contexts, an “unearthly,” irrational quality in the filmmaker’s work. Rebecca revolves around problems of memory; To Catch a Thief around uncertainty; Saboteur around pungent aspiration; Family Plot around intuition; Rear Windowaround expansive imagination; and Strangers on a Train around delirious madness. All of these films enunciate the return of the past, the invocation of a boundary beyond which experience becomes unpredictable and uncertain, and the celebration of values that transcend narrative resolution. Murray Pomerance’s distinctive method for thinking through Hitchcock’s work allows these films to inform theorization, not the other way around. His original, provocative, and groundbreaking explorations point to the importance of fantasy, improbability, doubt disconcertion, hope, memory, intuition, and belief, through which the oneiric comes to the center of waking life. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9781438472072
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The eyes have it : cinema and the reality effect / Murray Pomerance New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, c2013.
Call No: 630.3 POMAuthor: Pomerance, Murray Source: USPlace: New JerseyPublisher: Rutgers University PressPubDate: c2013PhysDes: xii, 268 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmSeries: Techniques of the moving imageSubject: ART DIRECTION ; CINEMATOGRAPHY ; COMPUTER GENERATED IMAGERY ; MOTION CONTROL ; REALISM IN FILMS ; SET DECORATING ; SET DESIGNING ; SPECIAL EFFECTS ; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED ; KELLY, GENE ; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; [FORTY] 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS (US, Michael Lehmann, 2002) ; ANNIE HALL (US, Woody Allen, 1977) ; ARIZONA DREAM [AMERICAN DREAMERS] (FR/US, Emir Kusturica, 1992) ; BRIGADOON (US, Vincente Minnelli, 1954) ; CLOVERFIELD (US, Matt Reeves, 2008) ; DARK PASSAGE (US, Delmer Daves, 1947) ; DEFIANCE (US, Edward Zwick, 2008) ; [DOCTOR] DR STRANGELOVE: OR, HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1964) ; FIELD OF DREAMS (US, Phil Alden Robinson, 1989) ; IN HARM'S WAY (US, Otto Preminger, 1965) ; NORTH BY NORTHWEST (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1959) ; RANDOM HARVEST (US, Mervyn LeRoy, 1942) ; SIGNS (US, M. Night Shyamalan, 2002) ; THELMA & LOUISE (US, Ridley Scott, 1991) ; VERTIGO (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1958) ; WIZARD OF OZ, THE (US, Victor Fleming, 1939) Summary: The Eyes Have It explores those rarified screen moments when viewers are confronted by sights that seem at once impossible and present, artificial and stimulating, sensory and definitive. Beginning with a penetrating study of five cornfield sequences - including The Wizard of Oz, Arizona Dream, and Signs - Murray Pomerance journeys through a vast array of cinematic moments, technical methods, and laborious collaborations from the 1930s to the 200s to show how the viewer's experience of "reality" is put in context, challenged, and wilfully engaged. Four meditations deal with "reality effects" from different philosophical and technical angles. "Vivid Rivals" assesses active participation and critical judgement in seeing effects with works such as Defiance, Cloverfield, Knowing, and Thelma & Louise. "The Two of Us" considers double placement and doubled experience with films such as The Prestige, Niagara and A Stolen Life. "Being There" discusses cinematic performance and the problems of believability, highlighting such films as Gran Torino, The Manchurian Candidate, In Harm's Way, and other films. "Fairy Land" explores the art of scenic backing, focusing on the fictional world of Brigadoon, which borrows from both hard-edged realism and evocative landscape painting." - BOOK BLURBNotes: Contains illustrations, bibliographic references and indexISBN: 9780813560588
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From hobbits to Hollywood : essays on Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings / edited by Ernest Mathijs and Murray Pomerance Amsterdam, NY: Rodopi B.V., 2006.
Call No: 79LOR FROAuthor: Mathijs, Ernest and Pomerance, Murray (eds.) Source: USPlace: Amsterdam, NYPublisher: Rodopi B.V.PubDate: 2006Series: Contemporary Cinema, no.3Subject: AUDIENCE RECEPTION ; ADAPTATIONS. TOLKEIN, J.R.R. ; MERCHANDISING ; ADVERTISING FOR FILMS ; SOCIAL ISSUES IN FILMS ; LORD OF THE RINGS: FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, THE (US, Peter Jackson, 2001) ; LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS, THE (US, Peter Jackson, 2002) ; LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING, THE (US, Peter Jackson, 2003) Summary: Collected essays on Peter Jackson's film adapatations of Tolkein's Lord of the Rings trilogy.Notes: includes index and bibliographyISBN: 9789042020627ISSN: 15723070Language: English
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The horse who drank the sky : film experience beyond narrative and theory / Murray Pomerance New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2008.
Call No: 632 POMAuthor: Pomerance, Murray Source: USPlace: New Brunswick, NJPublisher: Rutgers University PressPubDate: 2008PhysDes: xii, 257 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cmSubject: NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; THEORY ; AESTHETICS Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-245) and indexISBN: 9780813543284Contents: Overture -- 1. Thinking about the studios at Neubabelsberg -- The Dreamers, Doris Day, the predicament of the "onlooker," Now, Voyager, and Dead Man A Voluptuous Gaze -- Thinking about a dream of Sandra Oh, Short Cuts, Safe, Sideways, The Lookout, Disturbia, The Dead Zone, the gaze or the glance turning away from film, the "cinema of attractions," glancing at plot, Magnolia, battle effects, Rebecca, Requiem for a Heavyweight, Gojira, "panoramic perception," and vertiginous games -- 2. The Hero in the China Sea -- Thinking about Nicholas Ray's filmmaking, storylines and lines of action, performance and continuity, and Rebel Without a Cause -- 3. A Great Face -- Thinking about Alfred Hitchcock, North by Northwest, monuments and legalities, Mount Rushmore, stereopticons and the rear-projection process, Gary Cooper, George W. Bush, James Stewart, and Cary Grant -- 4. The Smoke and the Knife -- Thinking about Fritz Lang's M, police procedure, craft thieving, the rationality of smoke, women in Weimar Germany, motherhood and surveillance, severing and civilization -- 5. A Callfrom Everywhere -- Thinking about On the Beach, The Exorcist, acousmetre: the voice that cannot be seen, The Wizard of Oz, And the Ship Sails On ... , The Man Who Knew Too Much, Pan's Labyrinth, Trafic, narrative and de-acousmatization, and Stage Fright -- 6. As Time Goes By -- Thinking about cinematic transitions, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Lawrence of Arabia and the pre-lap, The Passenger, Blackmail, The Graduate, "faux pre-lap" in Chinatown, Three Days of the Condor, The Conversation, the upholstering buffer, the acousmetre passe, the "gasp" and the "turn," From Russia with Love, The Bourne Identity, Saturday Night Fever, editing and sound in the 1970s, Stanley Kubrick and Nestor Almendros -- 7. The Speaking Eye -- Thinking about the speaking eye, the democratic screen, Jaws, animal performance, acting and authenticity, falling out of role, cinematic realism and cinematic reality, My Man Godfrey, Mischa Auer, "reading" the screen, the morality and politics of watching, the "doctrine of natural expression," the filmmaker's will, and cinematic "importance" -- 8. Not an Unusual Story -- Thinking about Vertigo, Dinner at Eight, the sound revolution, John Barrymore, The Last Laugh, class structure and the comedy of manners, modernity and social collapse, The Great Depression and ressentiment, writing that obliterates the writer, "looking marvelous," performance and biography, and the acting of Marie Dressler -- 9. The Horse Who Drank the Sky -- Thinking about the cinematic sense of place, fragmentation, shellshock, explosions in cinema, Babel, Until the End of the World, Royal Wedding, extraterritoriality and television, Fahrenheit 451, the coup d'oeil, Sergeant York, "invisible landscapes," theater design and "marginal appreciation," mental vertigo, The Bourne Supremacy, Tourettic cinema, Blow-Up, color, and The Band Wagon.
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Johnny Depp starts here / by Murray Pomerance New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, c2005.
Call No: 81DEP POMAuthor: Pomerance, Murray Source: USPlace: New Brunswick, NJPublisher: Rutgers University PressPubDate: c2005PhysDes: x, 308 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSubject: DEPP, JOHNNY Summary: "From beloved bad-boy to cool and captivating maverick, Johhny Depp has inspired media intrigue and has been the object of international acclaim since the early 1990s.He has attracted attention for his eccentric image, his accidental acting career, his beguiling good looks, and his quirky charm. In Johnny Depp Starts Here, film scholar Murray Pomerance explores our fascination with Depp, his riddling complexity, and his meaning for our culture. Moving beyond the actor's engaging and inscrutable private life, Pomerance focuses on his enigmatic screen performances from A Nightmare on Elm Street to Secret Window. The actor's image is studied in terms of its many strange nuances: Depp's ethnicity, his smoking, his tranquility, his unceasing motion, his links to the Gothic, the Beats, Simone de Beauvoir, the history of rationality, Impressionist painting, and other ambiguities. In a series of treatments of his key roles, including Rafael in The Brave, Bon Bon in Before Night Falls, Jack Kerouac in The Source, and the long list of acclaimed performances from Gilbert Grape to Cap'n Jack Sparrow, we learn of Johnny onscreen in terms of male sexuality, space travel, optical experience, Roland Barthes, nineteenth-century American capitalism, Orientalism, the vulnerability of performance, the perils of sleep, comedy, the myth of the West, Scrooge McDuck, Francois Truffaut, and more. Both deeply intriguing and perpetually elusive, Depp is revealed as the central screen performer of the contemporary age, the symbol of performance itself' -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Filmography: p. 279-296ISBN: 0813535662Contents: -- acknowledgments -- Introduction : a trick of light -- Depp positions -- Interlude --
Johnny Depp starts here -- Depp theory -- The image views himself disappear --
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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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Marnie / Murray Pomerance Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Call No: 79 MAR POMAuthor: Pomerance, Murray Source: UKPlace: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, New YorkPublisher: Palgrave MacmillanPubDate: 2014Series: BFI ClassicsSubject: HITCHCOCK, ALFRED ; MARNIE (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1964) Summary: A thrilling tale of anxiety and moral extremity, Marnie (1964) cemented Alfred Hitchcock's reputation as a master of suspense and the visual form. Murray Pomerance here ranges through the many tortuous and thrilling passages of Marnie, weaving critical discussion together with production history to reveal Marnie as a woman in flight from her self, her past, her love, and the eyes of surveilling others. Challenging many received opinions, including claims of technical sloppiness and the proposal that Marnie's marriage night is a 'rape scene', Pomerance sheds new light on a film that can often be difficult to understand and accept on its own terms. Original and stimulating, this BFI Film Classic identifies Marnie as one of Hitchcock's masterpieces, highlights the film's philosophical and psychological sensitivity, and reveals its sharp-eyed understanding of American society and its moresNotes: Published on behalf of the British Film Institute.; Includes bibliographical references (pages 92-96)ISBN: 9781844576548Contents: -- acknowledgments -- the story -- 1 fugue -- 2 droit du seigneur -- 3 confederacy -- 4 face-off -- 5 I remember Mama -- notes -- credits -- bibliography --
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Michelangelo red Antonioni blue : eight reflections on cinema / Murray Pomerance Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011.
Call No: 81ANT POMAuthor: Pomerance, Murray Source: USPlace: BerkeleyPublisher: University of California PressPubDate: 2011PhysDes: xviii, 300 p., [12] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 23 cmSubject: ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO ; BEYOND THE CLOUDS [PAR-DELA LES NUAGES] (FR/IT/GG, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1995) ; IDENTIFICAZIONE DI UNA DONNA (IT, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1982) ; DESERTO ROSSO, IL (IT/FR, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964) ; ZABRISKIE POINT (US, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1970) ; PASSENGER, THE (IT/SP/FR, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975) ; BLOWUP (UK/IT, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966) ; MISTERO DI OBERWALD, IL (IT, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1980) ; EROS (US/IT/HK/FR/LU/UK, Michelangelo Antonioni / Steven Soderbergh / Wong Kar-Wai, 2004) Summary: Focusing on Antonioni's works in colour, arguing that these were his greatest films and investigating the effects and feelings with his usage of colour in filmsISBN: 9780520266865Contents: Introduction -- Beyond the clouds -- Identification of a woman -- The Red Desert -- The dangerous thread of things -- The mystery of Oberwald -- Zabriskie Point -- The passenger -- Blow-up
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Shining in shadows : movie stars of the 2000s / edited by Murray Pomerance New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, c2012.
Call No: 802.27 SHIAuthor: Pomerance, Murray Source: US/UKPlace: New Brunswick, N.J.Publisher: Rutgers University PressPubDate: c2012PhysDes: ix, 268 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSeries: Star decades: American culture/American cinemaSubject: ACTORS ; STARS ; HISTORY OF CINEMA ; DAMON, MATT ; DEPP, JOHNNY ; DOWNEY, ROBERT, Jr. ; EASTWOOD, CLINT ; FREEMAN, MORGAN ; Aniston, Jennifer ; FEY, TINA ; BLACK, JACK ; SANDLER, ADAM ; STILLER, BEN ; BARDEM, JAVIER ; DEL TORO, BENICIO ; HOFFMAN, PHILIP ; SWANK, HILARY ; ZELLWEGER, RENEE ; LEDGER, HEATH ; DICAPRIO, LEONARDO ; PENN, SEAN ; WINSLET, KATE ; BLANCHETT, CATE ; PITT, BRAD ; JOLIE, ANGELINA ; CLOONEY, GEORGE ; FERRELL, WILL ; GYLLENHAAL, MAGGIE Summary: "In the 2000s, new technologies transformed the experiences of movie-going and movie-making, giving us the first generation of stars to be just as famous on the computer screen as on the silver screen. Shining in Shadows examines a wide range of Hollywood icons from a turbulent decade for the film industry and for America itself.
Perhaps reflecting our own cultural fragmentation and uncertainty, Hollywood's star personas sent mixed messages about Americans' identities and ideals. Disheveled men-children like Will Ferrell and Jack Black shared the multiplex with debonair old-Hollywood standbys like George Clooney and Morgan Freeman. Iconic roles for women ranged from Renee Zellwegers's dithering romantics to Tina Fey's neurotic professionals to Hilary Swank's vulnerable boyish characters. And in this age of reality TV and TMZ, stars like Jennifer Aniston and "Brangelina" became more famous for their real-life romantic dramas - at the same time that former tabloid fixtures like Johnny Depp and Robert Downey Jr. reinvented themselves as dependable leading men.
With a multigenerational, international cast of stars, this collection presents a fascinating composite portrait of Hollywood stardom today. " -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Formerly CIP
Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9780813551487Donation: Donated by Senses of Cinema, 2013Contents: -- acknowledgments -- Introduction: stardom in the 2000s / Murray Pomerance -- The wonder boys: Matt Damon, Johnny Depp, and Robert Downey, Jr. / Dominic Lennard -- Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman: million dollar seniors / Robert Eberwein -- Jennifer Aniston and Tina Fey: girls with glasses / Victoria E. Johnson -- Puerile pillars of the Frat Pack: Jack Black, Will Ferrell, Adam Sandler, and Ben Stiller / Brenda R. Weber -- Javier Bardem and Benicio Del Toro: beyond machismo / Mary C. Beltra´n -- Philip Seymour Hoffman: a´ Jesus of uncool / Jerry Mosher -- A postfeminist primer: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Hilary Swank, and Rene´e Zellweger / Corinn Columpar -- Heath Ledger: I'm not there / Claire Perkins -- Leonardo DiCaprio and Sean Penn: acting authentic / Michael K. Hammond -- Kate Winslet and Cate Blanchett: the performance is the star / Charlie Keil -- Brangelina: celebrity, credibility, and the composite u ¨berstar / Linda Ruth Williams -- George Clooney: The Issues Guy / David Sterritt -- In the Wings / Murray Pomerance -- works cited -- contributors -- index --
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