Global Auteurs - Politics in the Films of Almodovar, von Trier, and Winterbottom (Hardcover, New edition)

Global Auteurs employs auteur theory to examine the work of three contemporary and innovative directors: Pedro Almodovar, Lars von Trier, and Michael Winterbottom. With extensive background information on the global film industry, and on auteur theory and its implications for ideological critique, this book's insightful case studies examine both ideologies the filmmakers re-circulate and ideologies that they confront in textual form. The discussion of Pedro Almodovar devotes particular attention to mass mediation, the family, and gender in the corpus of his films, while Lars von Trier's corpus is interpreted as driven by a motif that characterizes all of his films: the «failed idealist. Michael Winterbottom's body of work presents a genre-diverse, post-MTV style concerned with «outsiders and taboo, representation and truth, and human rights. Global Auteurs' sophisticated approach to decoding film is suitable for graduate and undergraduate courses on film, global mass media, and contemporary Europe.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Intersections in Communications and Culture, 22
Release date:	2009
First published:	2009
Authors:	Brian Michael Goss
Dimensions:	161 x 235 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	252
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4331-0145-8
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > General Books > Language & Literature > Language teaching & learning (other than ELT) > Specific skills > Speaking / pronunciation skills > Public speaking / elocution Promotions
LSN:	1-4331-0145-9
Barcode:	9781433101458

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