Engaging Film Criticism: Film History and Contemporary American Cinema (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780820474038)

Engaging Film Criticism examines recent American cinema in relationship to its imaginative intertexts , films from earlier decades that engage similar political and cultural themes. This historical encounter provides an unexpected and exciting way of reading popular contemporary films. Eclectic pairings include the Schwarzenegger action film True Lies with the Hitchcock classic North by Northwest, as well as the lampooned Will Smith comedy Wild, Wild West with Buster Keaton's silent feature The General. Using a theoretically and historically informed brand of criticism, Engaging Film Criticism suggests that today's Hollywood cinema is every bit as worthy of study as the classics.

Author: Joanne Hershfield, Walter Metz
ISBN-10: 0820474037
ISBN-13: 9780820474038
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 07/19/2004
Pages: 226
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d