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Autore |
Sonnenberg-Schrank Björn |
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Titolo |
Actor-Network Theory at the Movies : Reassembling the Contemporary American Teen Film With Latour / / by Björn Sonnenberg-Schrank |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 |
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[1st ed. 2020.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (270 pages) |
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Film genres |
Aesthetics |
Genre Studies |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction -- Chapter 1 - Circulating Reference and The DUFF -- Chapter 2 - Participant, Intermediary, Mediator in Winter's Bone and Boyhood -- Chapter 3 - Technology and Drugs as Quasi-Objects in Dope -- Chapter 4 - Visualization, Images and Inscriptions in The Diary of a Teenage Girl -- Chapter 5 - The Laboratory of the Self: (Re-)Assembling Adolescent Identities in Me and Earl and the Dying Girl -- Chapter 6 - Looking Back to the Future. Lady Bird and the new Era of Revisionist Teen Film -- Conclusion and Outlook. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book is one of the first to apply the theoretical tools proposed by French philosopher Bruno Latour, through the example of the American Teen Film genre. With a particular focus on Actor-Network Theory (ANT), the book delineates how Teen Film has established itself as one of Hollywood's most consistent and dynamic genres. While many productions recycle formulaic patterns, coming-of-age narratives have become an arena for aesthetically and politically progressive, experimental, and complex films. The case studies develop a Latourian film semiotics as a flexible analytical approach which raises new questions, not only about the history, types and tropes of teen films, |
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but also about their aesthetics, mediality, materiality, and composition. Through an exploration of a wide and diverse range of examples, including those by female and African-American directors, urban and rural perspectives, and non-heteronormative sexualities, this book demonstrates how the classic 'teen film canon' has been renewed, expanded and regurgitated. |
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