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Vincente Minnelli - The Art of Entertainment (Paperback)
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Vincente Minnelli - The Art of Entertainment (Paperback)
Series: Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
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This book offers a comprehensive scholarly examination of Vincente
Minnelli, one of American cinema's central filmmakers.Widely known
for innovative films like ""Meet Me in St. Louis"", ""An American
in Paris"", and ""The Band Wagon"", Vincente Minnelli also directed
classic film comedies like ""Father of the Bride"" and ""Designing
Woman"", and melodramas such as ""The Bad and the Beautiful"" and
""Some Came Running"". Though his work is beloved by filmmakers and
audiences alike, Minnelli has nonetheless received very little
critical attention in English. ""Vincente Minnelli: The Art of
Entertainment"" remedies this imbalance, offering the first-ever
comprehensive and scholarly examination of Minnelli's career within
a variety of discourses and methods.Bringing together a number of
previously uncollected and untranslated essays by some of the most
important scholars and critics in North America, Australia, and
Europe, ""Vincente Minnelli: The Art of Entertainment"" places
Minnelli's cinema in its rightful position at the forefront of film
history. In essays written over the last five decades, as well as a
number of new essays commissioned especially for this volume,
contributors consider Minnelli from a number of perspectives from
auteurism to genre studies and psychoanalysis to close textual
analysis.The volume is divided into four chronological sections,
Minnelli in the 1960s: The Rise and Fall of an Auteur; The 1970s
and 1980s: Genre, Psychoanalysis, and Close Readings; The 1990s:
Matters of History, Culture, and Sexuality; and, Minnelli Today:
The Return of the Artist. An introduction by Joe McElhaney
addresses the history of the reception of Minnelli's films,
situating this reception within larger questions of film theory,
criticism, and aesthetics.Too often dismissed as little more than a
stylist dependent on the resources of the studio system and the
structures of genre, Vincente Minnelli deserves a second look from
serious film scholars. ""Vincente Minnelli: The Art of
Entertainment"" demonstrates the remarkable and sustained rigor of
Minnelli's vision and will appeal to students and teachers of film
studies as well as fans of Minnelli's work.
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