Capital and popular cinema : the dollars are coming! / / Valentina Vitali [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Vitali Valentina
• Pubblicazione: Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
• Disciplina: 791.43
• Soggetto topico: Cult films - History and criticism; Cult films - Economic aspects; Motion picture industry
• Soggetto genere / forma: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2016.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 Mňdez, 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Capital and popular cinema
• ISBN: 1-5261-0977-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910798900603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II