Part V. Genre(s) in a post-9/11 context. Between torture porn and zombie apocalypse: horror and utopia in British-themed biopolitical films after 9/11 / Tamás Nagypál. Part I. Identities: race, ethnicity, gender. Black, white, and transnational: an analysis of the rise, fall, and potential rebirth of the contemporary urban dance musical in Anglophone western cinemas / Ciara Barrett -- Tales of loss, betrayal, and regain: Irishness and ethnic identity in contemporary Irish-themed American gangster films / Silvia Dibeltulo -- Neurotic and going nowhere: comedy and the contemporary Jewish American male / jennifer O'Meara -- Modern bromance, Mikhail Bakhtin, and the dialogics of alterity / David C. Wall -- Genre/nation. The en-genrement of the nation: the Spanish Civil War and Guillermo del Toro's fantasies / Juan F. Egea -- Commedia all` italiana American style: assessing the recent remakes of classic comedy Italian style / Giacomo Boitani -- Part III. Transition(s) and hybridity. The Wuxia films of Zhang Yimou: a genre in transit / Ian Kinane -- The "smart" teen film 1990-2005: identity crisis, nostalgia, and the teenage viewpoint / Laura Canning -- Part IV. Genre and industry: production, marketing, audiences. Constructing the televideofilm: corporatization, genrefication, and the blurring boundaries of Nigerian media / Noah Tsika -- From Nordic gloom to Nordic cool: producing genre film for the global markets / Pietari Kääpä -- A Bollywood commercial for Ireland: filming Ek Tha Tiger in Dublin / Giovanna Rampazzo -- Part V. Genre(s) in a post-9/11 context. Kant's Sublime and the disaster film after 9/11 / Barry Monahan -- Two chronotopes of the terrorist genre / Cormac Deane -- Between torture porn and zombie apocalypse: horror and utopia in British-themed biopolitical films after 9/11 / Tamás Nagypál.
Summary:
In view of the ever-increasing globalisation and transnational mediation of film texts and screen media and culture worldwide, the book recognises the need for film genre studies and film genre criticism to cast a broader, indeed global, scope. The collection thus rethinks genre cinema as a transitional, cross-cultural, and increasingly transnational, global paradigm of film-making in diverse contexts.-- Publisher's description.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.