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02792aam a2200337Ii 4500 001 BC817258A80111E7B9D4614397128E48 003 SILO 005 20171003010225 008 170227t20172017enka b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1784993107 020 $a 9781784993108 020 $a 1784993115 020 $a 9781784993115 035 $a (OCoLC)973921093 040 $a BTCTA $b eng $e rda $c BTCTA $d BDX $d YDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d CDX $d CBY $d SILO 050 4 $a PN1995 T593 2017 100 1 $a Tomarken, Edward, $d 1938- $e author. 245 10 $a Why theory? : $b cultural critique in film and television / $c Edward Tomarken. 264 1 $a Manchester : $b Manchester University Press, $c 2017. 300 $a x, 179 pages : $b illustration ; $c 22 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (page 172) and index. 505 0 $a Acknowledgements -- List of films and television programmes cited -- Introduction -- Clifford Geertz: this description -- Hayden White and history as mixture of fact and fiction -- Julia Kristeva: the female perspective on culture -- Homi K. Bhabha: post-colonial hybridity -- Pierre Bourdieu and sociological theory -- Martha Nussbaum: ethics and literary theory -- Conclusion: the strands of the web of culture -- Bibliography -- Index. 520 $a Takes six major literary theorists and explores their work using examples from contemporary film and television. Each chapter is devoted to a single theorist and addresses three of their ideas in particular - a methodical approach that, coupled with the concrete and accessible illustrations, helps to strip away the obscurity that has built up around the discipline. The theorists discussed, representing the cultural critique of the period 1970-2000, are Clifford Geertz, Hayden White, Julia Kristeva, Homi K. Bhabha, Pierre Bourdieu and Martha Nussbaum. The diverse illustrations are taken from mainstream films and television programmes of the past two decades, and include The West Wing (1999), Spider-Man 2 (2004), Frozen (2013), and Twelve Years a Slave (2013). Providing a broad range of specific examples drawn from everyday life, they allow for sophisticated ideas to be quickly grasped, while demonstrating the enduring power of cultural theory to explain the world around us. Ideal for students of literature and cultural studies, this book will also be of interest to academics and general readers looking for a new way to approach the discipline, as well as a convincing reassertion of its value. 650 0 $a Film criticism. 650 0 $a Critical theory. 650 0 $a Motion pictures and literature. 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20231103011635.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180710052132.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=BC817258A80111E7B9D4614397128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search