New Hollywood, new aesthetics. New Hollywood, new millennium / Thomas Schatz -- The supernatural in neo-baroque Hollywood / Sean Cubitt -- Man without a movie camera, movies without men: towards a posthumanist cinema? / William Brown -- Movie-games and game-movies: towards an aesthetics of transmediality / Douglas Brown and Tanya Krzywinska -- Saw heard: musical sound design in contemporary cinema / K.J. Donnelly -- The shape of 1999: the stylistics of American movies at the end of the century / Barry Salt -- Tales of epiphany and entropy: paranarrative worlds on YouTube / Thomas Elsaesser -- Feminism, philosophy, and queer theory. Reformulating the symbolic universe: Kill Bill and Tarantino's transcultural imaginary / Saša Vojković -- (Broke)back to the mainstream: queer theory and queer cinemas today / Harry M. Benshoff -- Demystifying Deleuze: French philosophy meets contemporary U.S. cinema / David Martin-Jones -- Rethinking affects, narration, fantasy, and realism. Trauma, pleasure, and emotion in the viewing of Titanic: a cognitive approach / Carl Plantinga -- Mementos of contemporary American cinema: identifying and responding to the unreliable narrator in the movie theater / Volker Ferenz -- Fantasy audiences versus fantasy audiences / Martin Barker -- "What is there really in the world?" Forms of theory, evidence and truth in Fahrenheit 9/11: a philosophical and intuitionist realist approach / Ian Aitken.
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Film theory (in all its various, heterogeneous guises) is still prevalent in film studies, even though it no longer plays a starring role, or top billing, and may have changed its identity through an alignment with science or philosophy. Film Theory and Contemporary Hollywood Movies presents current theoretical reflection and speculation into one of the dominant areas of film studies research since the 1990s - contemporary Hollywood movies. Serious study of Hollywood has galvanized around three trends: 1) the aesthetic; 2) the interpretive; and 3) the industrial-economic. This volume begins wi.