Keyframes: Popular Cinema and Cultural Studies

by Matthew Tinkcom (editor), Amy Villarejo (Editor)

Keyframes introduces the study of popular cinema of Hollywood and beyond and responds to the transformative effect of cultural studies on film studies.The contributors rethink contemporary film culture using ideas and concerns from feminism, queer theory, 'race' studies, critiques of nationalism, colonialism and post-colonialism, the cultural economies of fandom, spectator theory, and Marxism. Combining a film studies focus on the film industry, production and technology with a cultural studies analysis of consumption and audiences, Keframes demonstrates the breadth of approaches now available for understanding popular cinema. Subjects addressed * Studying Ripley and the 'Alien' films* Pedagogy and Political Correctness in Martial Arts cinema* Judy Garland fandom on the net* Stardom and serial Thomas Harris's 'Hannibal'* Tom Hanks and the globalization of stars* Queer Bollywood* Jackie Chan and the Black connection* '12 Monkeys', postmodernism and urban space.

416 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 17, 2001

About the author

Matthew Tinkcom is Associate Professor of Communication, Culture and Technology and Affiliate Faculty of English at Georgetown University, USA. He is the author of Working Like a Homosexual: Camp: Capital, Cinema and Grey Gardens, co-editor of Key Frames: Popular Cinema and Cultural Studies as well as articles that have appeared in Cinema Journal, South Atlantic Quarterly and collections from Duke University Press and the British Film Institute. He has served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar and Director of the Program in American Studies.