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Zusatztext Berliner's engaging and fresh cognitive approach to familiar topics within film studies makes it appropriate for both undergraduates, who might be encountering these topics for the first time, as well as for graduate students and film scholars looking for new understanding and insight based on scientific and cognitive theories. The book is cogently argued and comprehensively examines entertainment cinema and the aesthetic pleasures associated with it that have been too long ignored. Informationen zum Autor Todd Berliner, Professor of Film Studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, teaches film aesthetics, narration, and style and American film history. Author of Hollywood Incoherent: Narration in Seventies Cinema (2010), Professor Berliner has received two Fulbright Scholar awards, including the Laszlo Orszagh Distinguished Chair in American Studies. Professor Berliner was the founding chairman of UNCW's Film Studies Department. He holds a master's degree and doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley. Klappentext Hollywood Aesthetic offers the first comprehensive appraisal of Hollywood's capacity to provide aesthetic pleasure to mass audiences. Grounded in film history and in the psychological and philosophical literature in aesthetics, Hollywood Aesthetic explains how Hollywood creates, for huge numbers of people, some of their most exhilarating experiences of art. Zusammenfassung Hollywood Aesthetic offers the first comprehensive appraisal of Hollywood's capacity to provide aesthetic pleasure to mass audiences. Grounded in film history and in the psychological and philosophical literature in aesthetics, Hollywood Aesthetic explains how Hollywood creates, for huge numbers of people, some of their most exhilarating experiences of art. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgments Preface: The Test of Time Introduction Part I. Hollywood Classicism and Deviation 1. The Hollywood Aesthetic 2. Classicism and Deviation in His Girl Friday and Double Indemnity Part II. Narrative 3. Hollywood Storytelling 4. Finding the Fit: Shifting Story Logic in Red River Part III. Style 5. Hollywood Style 6. Raging Bull's Stylistic Dissonance Part IV. Ideology 7. Ideology, Emotion, and Aesthetic Pleasure 8. Crime Films during the Period of the Production Code Administration 9. Genre and Ideology in Starship Troopers Part V. Genre 10. The Hollywood Genre System 11. Bursting into Song in the Hollywood Musical 12. Complexity and Experimentation in the Western Conclusion Glossary Notes Bibliography Index ...
List of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface: The Test of Time
- Introduction
- Part I. Hollywood Classicism and Deviation
- 1. The Hollywood Aesthetic
- 2. Classicism and Deviation in His Girl Friday and Double Indemnity
- Part II. Narrative
- 3. Hollywood Storytelling
- 4. Finding the Fit: Shifting Story Logic in Red River
- Part III. Style
- 5. Hollywood Style
- 6. Raging Bull's Stylistic Dissonance
- Part IV. Ideology
- 7. Ideology, Emotion, and Aesthetic Pleasure
- 8. Crime Films during the Period of the Production Code Administration
- 9. Genre and Ideology in Starship Troopers
- Part V. Genre
- 10. The Hollywood Genre System
- 11. Bursting into Song in the Hollywood Musical
- 12. Complexity and Experimentation in the Western
- Conclusion
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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Has there ever been a work reflecting on the characteristic aesthetic features, value, and experience afforded by Hollywood filmmaking with anything approaching the self-consciousness, rigor, and flair exhibited in Todd Berliner's Hollywood Aesthetic? ... Berliner's book offers us a theory of the aesthetic and of the Hollywood aesthetic, in which critical analysis plays a key supporting role. Murray Smith, Professor of Film, University of Kent
