ISBN:
0231151489
,
0231151497
,
0231525214
,
9780231151481
,
9780231151498
,
9780231525213
Language:
English
Pages:
xviii, 372 pages
,
Illustrationen
,
23 cm
Year of publication:
2011
Series Statement:
Film and culture series
Uniform Title:
Film und Stereotyp Englisch
DDC:
791.43/6552
Keywords:
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures
;
Film
;
Stereotyp
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
Introduction -- Stereotype theory: concepts, perspectives, and controversies. The stereotype in psychology and the humanities -- Some aspects and levels of stereotypization in film -- The intellectual viewpoint versus the stereotype in mass culture -- A discourse history: the topic of the "stereotype" throughout film theory -- Prelude : Walther Rathenau's cultural criticism, Hugo Munsterberg's Euphoric -- Concept of film as art, and the neglect of the stereotype -- Bela Balazs's new visual culture, the tradition of linguistic skepticism, and Robert Musil's notion of the "formulaic" -- The readymade products of the fantasy machine : Rudolf Arnheim, Rene Fulop-Miller, and the discourse on the "standardization" of film -- The stereotype as intelligible form : Cohen-Seat, Morin, and semiology -- Irony and transfiguration : the postmodern view of the stereotype -- Film analysis : critique and transfiguration-three case studies -- Enjoying the stereotype and intense double-play acting : the performance of Jennifer Jason Leigh in the Hudsucker proxy -- Epilogue
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction -- Stereotype theory: concepts, perspectives, and controversies. The stereotype in psychology and the humanities -- Some aspects and levels of stereotypization in film -- The intellectual viewpoint versus the stereotype in mass culture -- A discourse history: the topic of the "stereotype" throughout film theory -- Prelude : Walther Rathenau's cultural criticism, Hugo Munsterberg's Euphoric -- Concept of film as art, and the neglect of the stereotype -- Bela Balazs's new visual culture, the tradition of linguistic skepticism, and Robert Musil's notion of the "formulaic" -- The readymade products of the fantasy machine : Rudolf Arnheim, Rene Fulop-Miller, and the discourse on the "standardization" of film -- The stereotype as intelligible form : Cohen-Seat, Morin, and semiology -- Irony and transfiguration : the postmodern view of the stereotype -- Film analysis : critique and transfiguration-three case studies -- Enjoying the stereotype and intense double-play acting : the performance of Jennifer Jason Leigh in the Hudsucker proxy -- Epilogue.
Note:
Translated from German
,
Includes bibliographical references and index -- Includes filmography
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