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At Home In Estranged Dreams: Contemporary Hollywood And The Uncanny, Kevin Patrick Mcdonald
At Home In Estranged Dreams: Contemporary Hollywood And The Uncanny, Kevin Patrick Mcdonald
Kevin P McDonald
This study examines contemporary Hollywood by focusing on films made between 1990 and 2010. With chapters on the double, war trauma, the undead, and automata, I delineate evidence of the uncanny within individual films along with the underlying contradictions that symptomatically respond to the larger economic conditions and industrial practices that shape the contemporary period. Each of the four chapters also serve as an occasion to analyze theoretical and thematic concerns drawn from Sigmund Freud's 1919 essay on the uncanny. Throughout the project there is a strong effort to link Freud's initial account to subsequent theoretical developments with a particular …
'Subbed-Titles': Hollywood, The Art House Market And The Best Foreign Language Film Category At The Oscars, Kyle W. J. Tabbernor
'Subbed-Titles': Hollywood, The Art House Market And The Best Foreign Language Film Category At The Oscars, Kyle W. J. Tabbernor
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This thesis provides a history of the Best Foreign Language Film category at the Oscars between 1926 and 2013. It examines the category through an industrial approach, historicizing the category’s symbiotic relationship with the Hollywood studios and examining how its financial, political and cultural parameters have been affected by changes within Hollywood studio corporate structure and the Hollywood studios’ practice of importing foreign-language films from Europe and around the world. Documenting this practice allows for the category to be structured in three sections: the period of European Art Cinema, the period of European commercial cinema, and the current period, which …