Film theory goes to the movies / 
edited by Jim Collins, Hilary Radner, and Ava Preacher Collins. 
 - New York ;  London :  Routledge,  1993. 
 - ix,297p. ;  24cm. 
 - AFI film readers .
 - AFI film readers .
<br/><br/>1.The new Hollywood. Thomas Schaltz -- 2.Reclaiming the social: peadgogy, resistance, and politics in celluloid culture. Henry A. Giroux -- 3.Pretty is as pretty does: free enterprise and the marriage plot. Hilary Radner -- 4.The unauthorized auteur today. Dudley Andrew -- 5.Loose canons: constructing cultural traditions inside and outside the acadmey. Ava Preacher Collins -- 6.Spectacles of death: identificaiton, reflexivity, and contemporary horror. Jeffrey Sconce -- 7.Hardware and hardbodies, what do women want?: a reading of "Thelma and Louise". Sharon Willis -- 8.2Thelma and Louise" and the cultural generation of the new Butch Femme. Cathy Griggers -- 9.Taboos and totems: cultural meanings -- 10.The powers of seeing and being seen: "Truth or dare" and "Paris is burning". Ann Cvetkovich -- 11.Spike Lee and the the fever in the racial junge. Ed Guerrero -- 12.Split skins: female agency and bodily mutilation in "The Little Mermaid -- 13.The big switch: Hollywood masculinity in the nineties. Susan Jeffords -- 14.Between apocalypse and redemption: John Singleton's "Boyz N The Hood". Michael Eric Dyson -- 14.Making cyborgs, making humans: of terminators and blade runners. Forest Pyle -- 16.Genericity in the nineties: eclectic irony and the new sincerity. Jim Collins. 
<br/><br/> This analysis recognizes the absence of scholarly attention to the modern day blockbuster. The authors attempt to set this right by studies of such major films as "Silence of the Lambs", "Terminator II" and "Pretty Woman". 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780415905756 (cased) :  No price 9780415905763 (pbk) :  No price 0415905761 (pbk) :  No price 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>9200019960 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Motion pictures.<br/>Media studies<br/>Film history, theory & criticism
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Cinema  Films (Motion pictures) 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>791.43 COL