Name: The American Cinema of Excess: Extremes of the National Mind on Film (en Inglés)
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Author: Mike King
ISBN: 9780995648012

portada The American Cinema of Excess: Extremes of the National Mind on Film (en Inglés)

The American Cinema of Excess: Extremes of the National Mind on Film (en Inglés)

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Stochastic Press

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Mike King

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Inglés

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Tapa Blanda

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9780995648012

The American Cinema of Excess: Extremes of the National Mind on Film (en Inglés)

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This book develops a new critical framework for exploring the excesses portrayed in American cinema. Each culture has its own excesses which taken together add up to a unique "madness." American cinema reveals these excesses, painting a portrait of the specifically American madness, and, when these excesses are rolled back a little, reveals the unique strengths and genius of the American mind. The critical methods of both Left and Right are shown to have programmatic biases that make them unsuited to analysis of this transgressive material; instead a method of dramatic criticism is developed here based on Aristotle's theory of tragedy and its cathartic possibilities. This framework is applied across a range of cinematic themes including paranoia, aggression, oedipal/Freudian themes, sexual obsession, the Apocalypse, Native Americans and cultural genocide, new age narcissism, nihilism and self-destruction, cultural autism, and virtual reality/fantasy. Finally, a look at American sanity is provided through films where dramatic excess is balanced with critical awareness.