American Dreamtime

A Cultural Analysis of Popular Movies, and Their Implications for a Science of Humanity

Häftad, Engelska, 1996

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Beskrivning

Americans consider themselves practical, realistic people engaged in building a complex technological civilization. At the same time, however, we spend countless billions on activities that fly in the face of our supposed commitment to down-to-earth realism: our movies, television programs, and sports events seem to be the pastimes of a whimsical, fantasy-ridden people. American Dreamtime explores these conflicting images through an analysis of blockbuster movies, revealing the intimate ties our daily activity and thought have with a world of myth.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1996-03-26
Mått:152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:344
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780822630470

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Film inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Lee Drummond is an independent scholar living in California. He directs the Center for Peripheral Studies.

Recensioner i media

In his innovative and original study of popular American films Drummond finds a virtual forest of symbols—not disembodied, language-based meanings but of pervasive images of machines and animals that are generative of the mythic ambiguities of American culture.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 The Primacy of MythChapter 3 A Theory of Culture as SemiospaceChapter 4 The Story of BondChapter 5 Metaphors Be with You: A Cultural Analysis of Star WarsChapter 6 It and Other Beasts: Jaws and the New TotemismChapter 7 Phone Home: E.T. as a Saga of the American FamilyChapter 8 Conclusions. Index