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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Genre Cinema"”.
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This Town Ain’t Big Enough for the Two of Us: Western Genre Cinema Rhetoric of the Twentieth Century and the Modern Alt-Right Movement
This work uses Western genre cinema as a springboard for evaluating how alt-right political ideologies are absorbed by common, everyday people. Using the exploratory work of political journalist Andrew Marantz and employing his research of the alt-right movement as supporting material, it explores …
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The Dream Machine: Moving beyond the dichotomy between genre and auteur cinema
… omnipresent than ever in modern society, the cinema is suffering an identity crisis, with some commentators questioning whether the medium is already dead. Hollywood cinema has shifted predominantly towards superhero and fantasy franchises complemented by kids animation movies, while Europe is …
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Comedy and Social Change in French Cinema 1990-2010: The Rise of the Rom-com
… on the sudden proliferation of a highly popular genre in French cinema over the past two decades. While genre cinema, French and otherwise, and especially comedy have historically been under-examined in France, this study contributes to a gradual shift towards the application of more …
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Nightmares from the Past: 'Kaiki eiga' and the Dawn of Japanese Horror Cinema
… previous nine decades of popular Japanese horror cinema remain an understudied area of film history. Known as kaiki eiga or "strange films," domestic horror movies based on classic Edo period (1603-1868) ghost stories, as well as imported pictures like Dracula (1931) and Frankenstein (1931), were …
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Sounds without Borders: Industry, Society and the Voice in Giallo Cinema
… the Crystal Plumage (1970) uses the model of the cinematic voice-over to explore the subjective experience of urban space in post-war Italy. The film suggests that by 1970 the ability to vocally ‘narrate’ and thus control space had become a fundamental assumption of the modern, cosmopolitan …