Keyframes: Popular Cinema and Cultural Studies

<p><em>Keyframes</em> introduces the study of popular cinema of Hollywood and beyond and responds to the transformative effect of cultural studies on film studies.<br>The contributors rethink contemporary film culture using ideas and concerns from feminism, queer theory, 'race' studies, critiques of nationalism, colonialism and post-colonialism, the cultural economies of fandom, spectator theory, and Marxism. Combining a film studies focus on the film industry, production and technology with a cultural studies analysis of consumption and audiences, <em>Keframes</em> demonstrates the breadth of approaches now available for understanding popular cinema. Subjects addressed include:<br>* Studying Ripley and the 'Alien' films<br>* Pedagogy and Political Correctness in Martial Arts cinema<br>* Judy Garland fandom on the net<br>* Stardom and serial fantasies: Thomas Harris's 'Hannibal'<br>* Tom Hanks and the globalization of stars<br>* Queer Bollywood<br>* Jackie Chan and the Black connection<br>* '12 Monkeys', postmodernism and urban space.</p> Introduction Section 1: Woman as Inter/National Sign 1. 'You've Been in My Life So Long I Can't Remember Anything Else: Into the Labyrinth with Ripley and the Alien' Pamela Church Gibson 2. ' Warrior Marks : Global Womanism's Neo-Colonial Discourse in a Multicultural Context' Inderpal Grewal and Caren Kaplan 3. 'Daddy, Where's the FBI Warning?: Constructing the Video Spectator' Ina Rae Hark 4. 'Romance And/As Tourism: Heritage Whiteness and the (Inter)National Imaginary in the New Woman's Film Diane Negra 5. 'Race as Spectacle, Feminism as Alibi: Representing the Civil Rights Era in the 1990s' Sharon Willis Section 2: New Constellations: Stars 6. 'Judy on the Net: Judy Garland and 'The Gay Thing' Revisited' Steven Cohan 7. 'Jackie Chan and the Black Connection' Gina Marchetti 8. 'Stardom and Serial Fantasies: Thomas Harris's Hannibal ' Linda Mizejewski 9. 'Learning From Bruce Lee: Pedagogy and Political Correctness in Marial Arts Cinema' Meaghan Morris 10. 'The Bicultural Text: Cheech Marin's Born in East L.A. ' Chon Noriega Section 3: Moving Desires 11. 'The Voice of Pornography: Tracking the Subject Through the Sonic Spaces of Gay-Male Moving Image Pornography' Richard Cante and Angelo Restivo 12. 'Nostalgia of the New Wave: Structure in Wong Kar-wai's Happy Together Rey Chow 13. 'Mario Lanza and the Fourth World' Marcia Landy 14. 'Devouring Creation: Cannibalism, Sodomy and the Scene of Analysis in Suddenly Last Summer ' Kevin Ohi 15. 'Queer Bollywood, or I'm the Player, You're the Naive One: Patterns of Sexual Subversion in Recent Indian Popular Cinema' Thomas Waugh 16. 'Cinema Studies Doesn't Matter; Or, I Know What You Did Last Semester' Toby Miller 17. ' 12 Monkeys , Postmodernism and the Urban: Toward a New Method' Matthew Ruben 18. 'Terminator Technology: Hollywood, History and Technology' Paul Smith 19. 'Compulsory Viewing for Every Citizen: Mr. Smith and the Rhetoric of Reception' Eric Smoodin 20. 'Standardizing Professionalism and Showmanship: The Performance of Motion Picture Projectionists During the Early Sync-Sound Era' Steve Wurtzler 21. 'States of Emergency' Patricia Zimmermann Contributor Notes