Introduction, Warren Buckland
Part One: New Practices, New Aesthetics
1. New Hollywood, New Millennium, Thomas Schatz
2. The Supernatural in Neo-Baroque Hollywood, Sean Cubitt
3. Man without a Movie Camera—Movies without Men: Towards a Posthumanist Cinema? William Brown
4. Movie-games and Game-movies: Towards an Aesthetic of Transmediality, Douglas Brown and Tanya Krzywinska
5. Saw Heard: Musical Sound Design in Contemporary Cinema, K.J. Donnelly
6. The Shape of 1999: The Stylistics of American Movies at the End of the Century, Barry Salt
7. Tales of Epiphany and Entropy: Paranarrative Worlds on YouTube, Thomas Elsaesser
Part Two: Feminism, Philosophy, and Queer Theory
8. Reformulating the Symbolic Universe: Kill Bill and Tarantino’s Transcultural Imaginary, Saša Vojkovic´
9. (Broke)back to the Mainstream: Queer Theory and Queer Cinemas Today, Harry M. Benshoff
10. Demystifying Deleuze: French Philosophy Meets Contemporary US Cinema, David Martin-Jones
Part Three: Rethinking Affects, Narration, Fantasy, and Realism
11. Trauma, Pleasure, and Emotion in the Viewing of Titanic: A Cognitive Approach, Carl Plantinga
12. Mementos of Contemporary American Cinema: Identifying and Responding to the Unreliable Narrator in the Movie Theater, Volker Ferenz
13. Fantasy Audiences versus Fantasy Audiences, Martin Barker
14. "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
Notes on Contributors
Index
Biography
Warren Buckland is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Oxford Brookes University. His authored and edited books include Puzzle Films, Directed by Steven Spielberg, Studying Contemporary American Film (with Thomas Elsaesser), and The Cognitive Semiotics of Film. He also edits the New Review of Film and Television Studies.
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