Beyond the Stars 2: Plot Conventions in American Popular Film - Hardcover

University Of Wisconsin Press

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0879725176 ISBN 13: 9780879725174

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991

Synopsis

The study of the conventional dimensions of film, whether of characters, narrative device, material objects, locales, or thematic motifs, provides a means of examining the most fundamental cultural assumptions of American movie makers and movie audiences. Because plot conventions are, in themselves, indexes of cultural beliefs about the physical and social world and how they should function, scholarship that focuses on the birth, evolution, or obsolescence of individual plot conventions helps to reveal the interrelationship between the movement of popular film and changes in American society.

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About the Author

Linda K. Fuller (Ph.D., University of Massachusetts), Professor of Communications at Worcester State College and a Senior Fellow at Northeastern University, is the author/(co)editor of more than 20 books and over 250 professional publications and conference reports, including Sport, Rhetoric, and Gender: Historical Perspectives and Media Representations (2006), Sportscasting: Principles and Practices (2008), and Sexual Sports Rhetoric: Historical and Media Contexts of Violence (Peter Lang, 2009). Fuller was awarded Fulbrights to teach in Singapore and do HIV/AIDS research in Senegal. Her website is: www.LKFullerSport.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0879725176
• ISBN 13: 9780879725174
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 277