The use of alternate realities in cinema has been brought to new heights by such recent films as
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and
Donnie Darko.
Alternative Worlds in Hollywood Cinema is the first book to analyze these imaginary realms, tracing their construction and development across periods, genres, and history.
Through an analysis of such landmark films as
The Wizard of Oz,
Vanilla Sky, and
Back to the Future, James Walters reveals how unconventional worlds are crucial to each film’s dramatic agenda and narrative structure. This groundbreaking volume unifies decades of divergent work by film scholars and points the way towards a new theoretical framework for understanding fantasy in the context of popular film.
Alternative Worlds in Hollywood Cinema will be an essential resource for film studies scholars and movie buffs alike.
“The book is very readable . . . an important area of film study. The most original aspects of the book are the close readings of the films discussed and how these readings cohere across a single thesis.”—Pat Brereton, Dublin City University, author of
Hollywood Utopia
Over de auteur
Dr James Walters is reader in film and television studies at the University of Birmingham. His books include: Alternative Worlds in Hollywood Cinema (Intellect and University of Chicago Press, 2008), Film Moments (with Tom Brown, British Film Institute, 2010), Fantasy Film (Bloomsbury, 2011), the BFI Television Classic The Thick of It (British Film Institute, 2016) and Television Performance (with Lucy Fife Donaldson, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).
Contact: Department of Film and Creative Writing, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2SD, UK.
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