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Author Dumas, Chris

Title Un-American psycho : Brian De Palma and the political invisible / Chris Dumas
Published Bristol [England] : Intellect, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 240 pages) : illustrations
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Contents Cover; Title; Half Title; Copyright; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction The Case of the Missing Disciplinary ObjectINCT_; Chapter 1 Shower Scene; Hitchcock and the Murder of Marion Crane; How to Blame De Palma; How to Operate the Hitchcock Machine; Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Žižek (But Were Afraid to Ask De Palma); Chapter 2 Get to Know Your Failure; Death(s) of the Left: An Historical Cartoon; Godard: The Holy Man; Made in U.S.A.; Cinema of Failed Revolt; Chapter 3 The Personal and The Political; Bad Objects
The Liberal GazeThe Political Invisible; Conclusion Norman Bates and His Doubles; Reference List and Bibliography; Index of Film Titles and Selected Proper Names; Back Cover
Summary This book is moving around two intricately interwoven topics, the history of film studies and the failed scholarly reception (or perhaps just failed reception) of Brian De Palma's films, this book asks troubling, provocative questions not only about what and how De Palma's films mean in the cultural and scholarly imaginary, but about the causal relationship of politics to taste (in this sense it's a much needed updating of Bourdieu's work) and about a certain un-ease at the heart of film studies itself
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject De Palma, Brian -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT De Palma, Brian. fast (OCoLC)fst00109406
Subject Film criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
Film criticism.
ART / General
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781841506944
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9781841505541