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Critical Approaches to the Films of M. Night Shyamalan represents the first serious academic engagement with auteur director M. Night Shyamalan and his work. The essays, including contributions from established film scholars David Sterritt, Murray Pomerance, Emmanuel Burdeau, R. Barton Palmer, Matt...
| Other Authors: | Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew., Palgrave Connect (Online service) |
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xxix, 233 pages) : illustrations. |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Summary: |
Critical Approaches to the Films of M. Night Shyamalan represents the first serious academic engagement with auteur director M. Night Shyamalan and his work. The essays, including contributions from established film scholars David Sterritt, Murray Pomerance, Emmanuel Burdeau, R. Barton Palmer, Matt Hills, and Katherine Fowkes, explore the Hollywood blockbusters from The Sixth Sense to The Happening in terms of their themes, aesthetics, and marketing. Taken together, the collection recognizes and explores Shyamalan's "star status" and offers the concerted analysis that this cultural phenomenon requires. |
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| Item Description: |
Critical Approaches to the Films of M. Night Shyamalan represents the first serious academic engagement with auteur director M. Night Shyamalan and his work. The essays, including contributions from established film scholars David Sterritt, Murray Pomerance, Emmanuel Burdeau, R. Barton Palmer, Matt Hills, and Katherine Fowkes, explore the Hollywood blockbusters from The Sixth Sense to The Happening in terms of their themes, aesthetics, and marketing. Taken together, the collection recognizes and explores Shyamalan's "star status" and offers the concerted analysis that this cultural phenomenon requires. Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction : telling stories about telling stories: the films of M. Night Shyamalan / Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock -- Feature one : narrating Shyamalan, narrating culture. The homefront hero in the films of M. Might Shyamalan / Elizabeth Abele -- Reaching out to the other side : problematic families in the films of M. Night Shyamalan / Elizabeth Rosen -- Melodrama and male crisis in Signs and Unbreakable / R. Barton Palmer -- Spellbound in darkness : Shyamalan's epistemological twitch / David Sterritt -- Four films by M. Night Shyamalan : oh, the irony? / Katherine A. Fowkes -- Night book or The mirror and the page / Emmanuel Bordeau -- Intermission: Shyamalan's story. Making sense of M. Night Shyamalan : signs of a popular auteur in the "field of horror" / Matt Hills -- Reshaping the director as star : investigating M. Night Shyamalan's Image / Kim Owczarski -- Feature two : stories by Shyamalan. Sigmund Freud, pedophile priests, and Shyamalan's filmic fairy tale (The sixth sense) / Jane F. Thrailkill -- Unbreak my heart : the melodramatic superhero in Unbreakable / Matthew Yockey -- Simulations of evil in M. Night Shyamalan's The village / Miriam Jordan and Julian Jason Haladyn -- "Something ancient in modern times" : myth and meaning-making in Lady in the water / Nicholas Parker and Nirmal Trivedi -- Whatever happened to M. Night Shyamalan : meditation on an "infection" film / Murray Pomerance. |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xxix, 233 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780230112094 0230112099 |