The Multi-Protagonist Film (New Approaches to Film Genre) - Hardcover

Azcona, Maria Del Mar

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1444333933 ISBN 13: 9781444333930

Verlag: *Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

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The Multi-Protagonist Film is an insightful and provocative introduction to this important new genre. 

• Explores the origins and history of one of the most exciting new developments in contemporary film worldwide
• Guides readers through the genre’s central characteristics and conventions, as well as it's evolution and cultural relevance
• Provides a theoretical framework that is developed through the analysis several films, including Grand Hotel, Singles,  American Pie, Short Cuts, and Syriana. 
• Reveals the duality of the genre's contemporary preoccupations:  the impact of globalization on human lives versus the current state of intimate affairs, the crisis of marriage, and the proliferation of sexual choices

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María del Mar Azcona teaches English and Film Studies at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. She has published articles on film genre, contemporary Hollywood cinema, and Spanish cinema, and is the author of a book on Alejandro González Iñárritu, co-written with Celestino Deleyto (2010).

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The Multi-Protagonist Film explores the origins and history of one of the most exciting new developments in contemporary film worldwide. This “new” genre isn’t really new at all; rather, its historical roots run deep in the Hollywood canon – think Grand Hotel – and re-emerge in contemporary iterations in movies such as Singles, American Pie, Short Cuts, and Syriana.

This volume provides elegant analyses of a variety of films to help chart the genre’s evolution and to explore the complexity, mixed messaging, and signal changes that define the multi-protagonist film in the current age. From the impact of globalization on society to shifting morals and the aftershocks of the sexual revolution, The Multi-Protagonist Film helps us to understand the genre and the imponderables that define the political, cultural, public and private spheres.

This volume provides elegant analyses of a variety of films to help chart the genre’s evolution and to explore the complexity, mixed messaging, and signal changes that define the multi-protagonist film in the current age. From the impact of globalization on society to shifting morals and the aftershocks of the sexual revolution, The Multi-Protagonist Film helps us to understand the genre and the imponderables that define the political, cultural, public and private spheres.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: *Wiley-Blackwell
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1444333933
• ISBN 13: 9781444333930
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 172
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