LIBROS DEL AUTOR: jason sperb

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  • The Hard Sell of Paradise
    Jason Sperb
    Traces the complex and contradictory representations of Hawai’i in popular film and television programs from the 1930s to the 1970s.The Hard Sell of Paradise examines how mid-twentieth-century Hollywood, negotiating the rhetoric of the tourism industry, offered a complex and contradictory vision of 'Hawai’i' for its audiences. From the classic studio system and elite tourism of...
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    49,23 €

  • Blossoms and Blood
    Jason Sperb
    From his film festival debut Hard Eight to ambitious studio epics Boogie Nights, Magnolia, and There Will Be Blood, Paul Thomas Anderson’s unique cinematic vision focuses on postmodern excess and media culture. In Blossoms and Blood, Jason Sperb studies the filmmaker’s evolving aesthetic and its historical context to argue that Anderson’s films create new, often ambivalent, nar...
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    38,90 €

  • Disney’s Most Notorious Film
    Jason Sperb
    The Walt Disney Company offers a vast universe of movies, television shows, theme parks, and merchandise, all carefully crafted to present an image of wholesome family entertainment. Yet Disney also produced one of the most infamous Hollywood films, Song of the South. Using cartoon characters and live actors to retell the stories of Joel Chandler Harris, SotS portrays a kindly ...
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  • Kubrick Facade
    Jason Sperb
    Many of Stanley Kubrick’s films are often interpreted as cold and ambiguous. Whether viewing Barry Lyndon, 2001, The Shining, or Eyes Wide Shut, there is a sense in which these films resist their own audiences, creating a distance from them. Though many note the coldness of Kubrick’s films, a smaller number attempt to explore exactly how his body of work elicits this particular...
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    72,44 €