Perverse spectators : the practices of film reception / Janet Staiger.

Author/creator Staiger, Janet
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : New York University Press, ©2000.
Descriptionvi, 242 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Modes of reception -- The perversity of specators: expanding the history of the classical Hollywood cinema -- Writing the history of American film reception -- Hybrid or inbred: the purity hypothesis and Hollywood genre history -- The romances of the blonde Venus: movie censors versus movie fans -- The cultural productions of A clockwork orange -- The places of empirical subjects in the event of mass culture: Jeanie Bueller and ideology -- Finding community in the early 1960s: underground cinema and sexual politics -- Taboos and totems: cultural meanings of The silence of the lambs -- Hitchcock in Texas: intertextaulity in the face of blood and gore -- Securing the fictional narrative as a tale of the historical real: The return of Martin Guerre -- Cinematic shots: the narration of violence.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 00008433
ISBN081478139X (alk. paper)
ISBN0814781381 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PN1995.9.A8 S69 2000 ✔ Available Place Hold