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020			_a9781501336942
020			_z9781501336911 (hardback)
020			_z9781501336928 (electronic book)
020			_z9781501336935 (PDF)
041			_aeng
100			_aWilkins, Kim, _eauthor. _918486
245			_aAmerican eccentric cinema / _cKim Wilkins.
250			_aFirst edition.
260			_aLondon ; _aNew York : _bBloomsbury Academic, _c2019.
300			_a1 online resource (viii, 216 pages) : _billustrations
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"Since the late 1990s a new language has emerged in film scholarship and criticism in response to the popularity of American directors such as Wes Anderson, Charlie Kaufman, and David O. Russell. Increasingly, adjectives like 'quirky', 'cute', and 'smart' are used to describe these American films, with a focus on their ironic (and sometimes deliberately comical) stories, character situations and tones. Kim Wilkins argues that, beyond the seemingly superficial descriptions, 'American eccentric cinema' presents a formal and thematic eccentricity that is distinct to the American context. She distinguishes these films from mainstream Hollywood cinema as they exhibit irregularities in characterization, tone, and setting, and deviate from established generic conventions. Each chapter builds a case for this position through detailed film analyses and comparisons to earlier American traditions, such as the New Hollywood cinema of the 1960s and 1970s. American Eccentric Cinema promises to challenge the notion of irony in American contemporary cinema, and questions the relationship of irony to a complex national and individual identity"--Bloomsbury Publishing.
533			_aElectronic reproduction. _bNew York : _cBloomsbury Publishing, _d2018. _nAvailable via World Wide Web. _nAccess limited by licensing agreement.
650			_aExistentialism in motion pictures. _918487
650			_aMotion pictures _zUnited States. _918488
650			_aNational characteristics, American, in motion pictures. _918489
650			_2Films, cinema
651		0	_aUnited States _xIn motion pictures. _918490
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.5040/9781501336942?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
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