Omnibus films : theorizing transauthorial cinema / David Scott Diffrient.
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Scotland :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. I. Historical and theoretical perspectives. 1. "Beginnings without ends": conceptual parameters and critical discourses of episodic cinema
- 2. Regulated variety and excess: antecedents and extensions of episodic cinema
- 3. Key concepts in transauthorial cinema: abundance, change, containment, and order
- 4. Key concepts in film studies: audience, authorship, genre, and nation
- Pt. II. Get on the omnibus: case studies in transauthorial cinema. 5. Wartime "consensus pictures" and the "housing of history: from Forever and a Day to Dead of Night
- 6. Three cases of Maugham: Quartet, trio, and encore
- 7. Episodic erotics and politics of place: from "Love in the City" to "Love and Anger"
- 8. Collective opposition, political participation, and worldwide competition: from "Visions of Eight" to "Visions of Europe"
- 9. The recent revival of the omnibus film: from "Paris, Je T'aime" to "11'09'01"