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Autore |
Vitali Valentina |
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Capital and popular cinema : the dollars are coming! / / Valentina Vitali [[electronic resource]] |
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Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Cult films - History and criticism |
Cult films - Economic aspects |
Motion picture industry |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Previously issued in print: 2016. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index. |
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Popular cinema has mostly been discussed from a 'cult' perspective that celebrates uncritically its 'transgressive' qualities. Capital and popular cinema responds to the need for a more solid academic approach by situating 'low' film genres in their economic and culturally-specific contexts and by exploring the interconnections between those contexts, the immediate industrial-financial interests sustaining the films, and the films' aesthetics. Through the examination of three different cycles in film production - the Italian giallo of Mario Bava, the Mexican films of Fernando MnĚdez, and the Hindi horror cinema of the Ramsay Brothers - this book proposes a comparative approach that accounts for the whole of a national film industry's production ('popular' and 'canonic'), and is applicable to the study of film genres globally. |
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