Bad History and the Logics of Blockbuster Cinema: Titanic, Gangs of New York, Australia, Inglourious Basterds - Hardcover

McGee, Patrick

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ISBN 10: 0230116515 ISBN 13: 9780230116511

Verlag: AIAA, 2011

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Argues for the political and social significance of mass culture through the interpretation of four recent big-budget movies - Titanic, Gangs of New York, Australia, and Inglourious Basterds

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"McGee exhibits a dazzling knowledge of Hollywood blockbuster films and the quality and significance of his studies are high." -Douglas Kellner, professor, UCLA, USA, and author of Cinema Wars

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In his latest book, Patrick McGee argues for the political and social significance of mass culture through the interpretation of four recent big-budget movies: Titanic, Gangs of New York, Australia, and Inglourious Basterds. Through philosophical and historical contextualization, he reveals the logic of what appears on the screen, a logic that shows how these films both represent and distort the historical record in order to articulate a truth that challenges conventional history as a discipline. Counterdisciplinary in its method, this exciting work asserts that no movie can ever be reduced to the absolutely authentic or the absolutely inauthentic.

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• Verlag: AIAA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0230116515
• ISBN 13: 9780230116511
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 218