A cinema without walls : movies and culture after Vietnam / Timothy Corrigan.

By: Corrigan, Timothy, 1951- [author]
Language: English Publisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, c1991Description: x, 258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0813516676 (cloth) :; 0813516684 (pbk.) :; 9780813516677 ; 9780813516684Subject(s): Motion pictures -- History | Motion picture audiences -- United States | Culture in motion picturesDDC classification: 791.430904047 LOC classification: PN1993.5.U6 | C64 1991
Contents:
Introduction: Leaving the cinema -- Glancing at the past: from Vietnam to VCR's (Heaven's Gate; Platoon; Full Metal Jacket) -- Illegible films: texts without secrets (Adrift; In a Year of Thirteen Moons; Blue Velvet) -- Film and the culture of cult (Choose me; After hours) -- The commerce of auteurism: Coppola, Kluge, Ruiz -- Genre, gender, and hysteria: the road movie in outer space (Bonnie and Clyde; Badlands; Paris, Texas) -- Interminable tales of Heaven and Hell (9 1/2 weeks; The singing detective) -- Spinning the spectator: fans and terrorists in the third generation (The King of Comedy; The Third Generation; My Beautiful Laundrette) -- Afterword : Mobile homes.
Summary: Corrigan argues that in the past 25 years the increased conglomerization of film production/distribution companies and the rise of VCR, satellite, and cable television technologies have altered the way films are made and how we view them. The result is a growing internationalization of national cinema cultures and an increasing fragmentation of the audience. Video has reduced the movie to private and domestic performance. At the same time, audiences are bombarded with a surfeit of images that leaves them with a battered sense of their place in history and culture. Corrigan notes that, combined with what many critics have recognized as the growing incoherence in film texts, these facts make it more meaningful to discuss films not as texts but as multiple cultural and commercial processes constructed by increasingly specialized audiences. ISBN 0-8135-1667-6: $36.00.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-250)

Introduction: Leaving the cinema --
Glancing at the past: from Vietnam to VCR's (Heaven's Gate; Platoon; Full Metal Jacket) --
Illegible films: texts without secrets (Adrift; In a Year of Thirteen Moons; Blue Velvet) --
Film and the culture of cult (Choose me; After hours) --
The commerce of auteurism: Coppola, Kluge, Ruiz --
Genre, gender, and hysteria: the road movie in outer space (Bonnie and Clyde; Badlands; Paris, Texas) --
Interminable tales of Heaven and Hell (9 1/2 weeks; The singing detective) --
Spinning the spectator: fans and terrorists in the third generation (The King of Comedy; The Third Generation; My Beautiful Laundrette) --
Afterword : Mobile homes.


Corrigan argues that in the past 25 years the increased conglomerization of film production/distribution companies and the rise of VCR, satellite, and cable television technologies have altered the way films are made and how we view them. The result is a growing internationalization of national cinema cultures and an increasing fragmentation of the audience. Video has reduced the movie to private and domestic performance. At the same time, audiences are bombarded with a surfeit of images that leaves them with a battered sense of their place in history and culture. Corrigan notes that, combined with what many critics have recognized as the growing incoherence in film texts, these facts make it more meaningful to discuss films not as texts but as multiple cultural and commercial processes constructed by increasingly specialized audiences. ISBN 0-8135-1667-6: $36.00.

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