Introduction: Leaving the Cinema

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dc.contributor.authorCorrigan, Timothy
dc.date2023-05-17T18:39:12.000
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-22T12:45:49Z
dc.date.available2016-11-11T00:00:00Z
dc.date.issued1991
dc.date.submitted2017-09-22T11:52:17-07:00
dc.description.abstractHow have modern advertising techniques, the widespread use of VCRs, conglomerate takeovers of studios and film archives, cable TV, and media coverage of the Vietnam war changed the ways we watch movies? And how, in turn, have those different habits and patterns of viewing changed the ways in which films address their viewers? Drawing on a wide variety of American and European films and on many theoretical models, Timothy Corrigan investigates what he calls "a cinema without walls," taking a close look at particular films in order to see how we watch them differently in the post-Vietnam era. He examines cult audiences, narrative structure, genre films (road movies, in particular), and contemporary politics as they engage new models of film making and viewing. He thus provides a rare, serious attempt to deal with contemporary movies. Corrigan discusses filmmakers from a variety of backgrounds and cultures, including Martin Scorsese, Raoul Ruiz, Michael Cimino, Alexander Kluge, Francis Ford Coppola, Stephen Frears, and Wim Wenders. He offers detailed analyses of films such as Platoon; Full Metal Jacket; 9-1/2 Weeks; The Singing Detective; Choose Me; After Hours; Badlands; The King of Comedy; Paris, Texas; and My Beautiful Laundrette. Orchestrating this diversity, Corrigan provides a critical basis for making sense of contemporary film culture and its major achievements.
dc.description.commentsTimothy Corrigan originally published this book as part of Temple University's faculty.
dc.identifier.citationCorrigan, T. (1991). Introduction: Leaving the Cinema. In T. Corrigan (Ed.), A Cinema Without Walls: Movies and Culture after Vietnam (pp. 1-7). New York: Routledge.
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.500.14332/6116
dc.legacy.articleid1004
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dc.source.journalDepartmental Papers (CIMS)
dc.source.journaltitleA Cinema Without Walls: Movies and Culture After Vietnam
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dc.subject.otherFilm and Media Studies
dc.titleIntroduction: Leaving the Cinema
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digcom.contributor.authorCorrigan, Timothy
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