Classical Hollywood Narrative: The Paradigm Wars

Published by Duke University Press 1992

Classical Hollywood Narrative

The Paradigm Wars

Edited by: Jane M. Gaines

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822396345

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Since the 1970s film studies has been dominated by a basic paradigm—the concept of classical Hollywood cinema—that is, the protagonist-driven narrative, valued for the way it achieves closure by neatly answering all of the enigmas it raises. It has been held to be a form so powerful that its aesthetic devices reinforce gender positions in society. In a variety of ways, the essays collected here—representing the work of some of the most innovative theorists writing today—challenge this paradigm.
Significantly expanded from a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly (Spring 1989), these essays confront the extent to which formalism has continued to dominate film theory, reexamine the role of melodrama in cinematic development, revise notions of "patriarchal cinema," and assert the importance of television and video to cinema studies. A range of topics are discussed, from the films of D. W. Griffith to sexuality in avant-garde film to television's Dynasty.

Contributors. Rick Altman, Richard Dienst, Jane Feuer, Jane Gaines, Christine Gledhill, Miriam Hansen, Norman N. Holland, Fredric Jameson, Bill Nichols, Janey Staiger, Chris Straayer, John O. Thompson

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Jane Gaines is Associate Professor of English and Literature and Director of the Film and Video Program at Duke University. She is the author of Contested Culture: The Image, the Voice, and the Law.

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Introduction: The Family Melodrama of Classical Narrative Cinema Jane Gaines Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Dickens. Griffith, and Film Theory Today Rick Altman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Form Wars: The Political Unconscious of Formalist Theory Bill Nichols Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
Film Response from Eye to I: The Kuleshov Experiment Norman Holland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
Securing the Fictional Narrative as a Tale of the Historical Real: The Return of Martin Guerre Janet StaiBer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Between Melodrama and Realism: Anthony Asquith's Underaround and King Vidor's The Crowd Christine Gledhill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
The Hieroglyph and the Whore: D. W. Griffith's Intolerance Miriam Hansen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
The She-Man: Postmodern Bi-Sexed Performance in Film and Video Chris Straayer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Dead Ringer: Jacqueline Onassis and the Look-Alike Jane Gaines Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Nostalgia for the Present Fredric Jameson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
Reading Dynasty: Television and Reception Theory Jane Feuer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
Dialogues of the Living Dead John Thompson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
Image/Machine/Image: On the Use and Abuse of Marx and Metaphor in Television Theory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	341
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	345

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 360
Illustrations
- Other: 10 illustrations

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Published: October 21, 1992
ISBN: 9780822396345