American eccentric cinema
- Responsibility
- Kim Wilkins.
- Publication
- New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
- Copyright notice
- ©2019
- Physical description
- vi, 214 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
Creators/Contributors
- Author/Creator
- Wilkins, Kim, 1986- author.
Contents/Summary
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-209), filmography (pages 195-199), and index.
- Contents
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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.
- (source: Nielsen Book Data)
- Publisher's summary
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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.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
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Bibliographic information
- Publication date
- 2019
- Copyright date
- 2019
- ISBN
- 9781501336911 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
- 1501336916 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
- 9781501336935 (electronic book)
- 9781501336942 (xml-platform)
- 9781501336928 electronic book
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