{"product_id":"9781841501192","title":"New-Brutality Film: Race and Affect in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 1990s saw the emergence of a new kind of American cinema, which this book calls the “new-brutality film.” Violence and race have been at the heart of Hollywood cinema since its birth, but the new-brutality film was the first kind of popular American cinema to begin making this relationship explicit. The rise of this cinema coincided with the rebirth of a long-neglected strand of film theory, which seeks to unravel the complex relations of affect between the screen and the viewer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book analyses and connects both of these developments, arguing that films like \u003ci\u003eFalling Down\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eReservoir Dogs\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSe7en\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eStrange Days\u003c\/i\u003e sought to reanimate the affective impact of white Hollywood cinema by miming the power of African-American and particularly hip-hop culture. The book uses several films as case-studies to chart these developments:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• \u003ci\u003eFalling Down\u003c\/i\u003e both appropriates of the political black rage of the ‘hood film and is a transition point between the white postmodern blockbuster and the new-brutality film.\u003cbr\u003e• Gangsta films like \u003ci\u003eBoyz N the Hood\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMenace II Society\u003c\/i\u003e provided the inspiration for much of the new-brutality film’s mimesis of African-American culture\u003cbr\u003e• The films of Quentin Tarantino (including \u003ci\u003eReservoir Dogs\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePulp Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e) are new-brutality films that attempt to reanimate the affective power of Hollywood cinema.\u003cbr\u003e• \u003ci\u003eSe7en\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eStrange Days\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFight Club\u003c\/i\u003e,and \u003ci\u003eThe Matrix\u003c\/i\u003e trilogy signify both the development and the demise of the new-brutality film.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book charts and analyses an important period of Hollywood cinema as well as engaging with key contemporary thinkers (Deleuze, Jameson, Zizek and Benjamin) in a strikingly innovative fashion. The work will appeal to dedicated film scholars, critical theorists and readers with a general interest in film.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Intellect, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47039074631920,"sku":"9781841501192","price":35.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781841501192_p0.jpg?v=1763741631","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781841501192","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}