A Critical Companion to Robert Zemeckis (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Barkman, Adam; Sanna, Antonio

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A Critical Companion to Robert Zemeckis offers a comprehensive, academic and detailed study of the works of Robert Zemeckis, whose films include successful productions such as the Back to the Future trilogy (1985-90), Forrest Gump (1994), Contact (1997), Cast Away (2000) and The Polar Express (2004), but also lesser known films such as I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978), Used Cars (1980), and Allied (2015). Most of Zemeckis' major productions were not only successful when they were first released but continue to enjoy popularity-with critics and fans alike-even today. This volume investigates several distinct areas of Zemeckis' works and addresses the different approaches: the philosophical, the artistic, the socio-cultural, and the personal. The methodologies adopted by the contributors differ significantly from each other, thus offering the reader a variegated and compelling picture of Zemeckis' oeuvre, which includes nineteen films. Contrary to the few volumes published in the past on the subject, the chapters in this volume offer specific case studies that have been previously ignored (or only partially mentioned) by other scholars. A Critical Companion to Robert Zemeckis offers a great variety of interdisciplinary approaches to Zemeckis' films, illuminating, re-reading and/or interpreting for the first time the entire career of the director, from his first films to the most recent ones.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781793623461
• Artikelnr.: 60481879

Autorenporträt

Adam Barkman is professor of philosophy and chair of the Philosophy Department at Redeemer University College. Antonio Sanna teaches English language and literature in Sassari, Italy.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: The Filmmaker 1) "You Gotta Get Their Friendship
Their Trust
then Get Their Money": Social Class and Financial Corruption in Used Cars
Eric Sterling 2) Till Death Do Us Part: Romancing the Stone
Death Becomes Her
and the Romance Genre
Michael Charlton 3) Used Cars
Flying Cars and Streetcars: The Role of Transportation and Capitalism in the Films of Robert Zemeckis
Siobhan Lyons 4) Deconstructing the Femme Fatale: Zemeckis's Ventures into Horror
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns 5) The Horror
the Horror: Freud
Horror
and the Uncanny in the Motion Capture Productions of Robert Zemeckis
Paul Johnson 6) Allied: The Longstanding Relationship Between Composer Alan Silvestri and Director Robert Zemeckis
Kingsley Marshall Part II: The Philosopher 7) Luck
Happiness
and Forrest Gump
David K. Chan 8) The Things We Can't See: Kierkegaard's Three Stages and the Crisis of Faith in The Polar Express
Nicole Pramik 9) White Christian Heroes and Others in Back to the Future
Forrest