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050 00 $aPN1994$b.B68 2009
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100 1 $aBritton, Andrew,$d1952-1994.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91107780
245 10 $aBritton on film :$bthe complete film criticism of Andrew Britton /$cedited by Barry Keith Grant ; with an introduction by Robin Wood.
260 $aDetroit :$bWayne State University Press,$c[2009], ©2009.
300 $axviii, 533 pages :$billustrations ;$c26 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aContemporary approaches to film and television series
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 509-519) and index.
520 1 $a"For fifteen years before his untimely death, Andrew Britton produced a body of undeniably brilliant film criticism that has been largely ignored within academic circles. Though Britton's writings are extraordinary in their depth and range and are closely attuned to the nuances of the texts they examine, his humanistic approach was at odds with typical theory-based film scholarship. Britton on Film demonstrates that Britton's humanism is also his strength, as it presents all of his published writings together for the first time, including Britton's persuasive readings of such important Hollywood films as Meet Me in St. Louis, Spellbound, and Now, Voyager and of key European filmmakers such as Sergei Eisenstein, Jean-Luc Godard, and Bernardo Bertolucci." "Renowned film scholar and editor Barry Keith Grant has assembled all of Britton's published essays of film criticism and theory for this volume, spanning the late 1970s to the early 1990s. The essays are arranged by theme: Hollywood cinema, Hollywood movies, European cinema, and film and cultural theory. In all, twenty-eight essays consider such varied films as Hitchcock's Spellbound, Jaws, The Exorcist, and Mandingo and topics as diverse as formalism, camp, psychoanalysis, imperialism, and feminism. Included are such well-known and important pieces as "Blissing Out: The Politics of Reaganite Entertainment" and "Sideshows: Hollywood in Vietnam," among the most perceptive discussions of these two periods of Hollywood history yet published. In addition, Britton's critiques of the ideology of Screen and Wisconsin formalism display his uncommon grasp of theory even when arguing against prevailing critical trends." "An introduction by influential film critic Robin Wood, who was also Britton's teacher and friend, begins this landmark collection. Students and teachers of film studies as well as general readers interested in film and American popular culture will enjoy Britton on Film."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aMotion pictures.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85088084
700 1 $aGrant, Barry Keith,$d1947-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83070137
830 0 $aContemporary approaches to film and television series.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003053483
852 00 $bglx$hPN1994$i.B68 2009