Darwin's Screens
Evolutionary Aesthetics, Time and Sexual Display in the Cinema
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- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
23 October 2009
Summary
Darwin’s Screens addresses a major gap in film scholarship-the key influence of Charles Darwin’s theories on the history of the cinema. Much has been written on the effect of other great thinkers such as Freud and Marx but very little on the important role played by Darwinian ideas on the evolution of the newest art form of the twentieth century. Creed argues that Darwinian ideas influenced the evolution of early film genres such as horror, the detective film, science fiction, film noir and t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522857092 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0522857094 |
| Author: | Barbara Creed |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 23 October 2009 |
| Weight: | 322g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 136mm x 16mm |
| Series: | Academic Monographs |
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Critics Review
‘What a wonderful book! Barbara Creed’s wide-ranging study soars - to take on the evolutionary implications of the movies, spanning classic horror, to science fiction, to film noir.’ - Professor Barbara Maria Stafford, University of Chicago, author of Echo Objects: The Cognitive Work of Images
About The Author
Barbara Creed
Barbara Creed is Professor of Cinema Studies and Head of the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. She is author of the acclaimed The Monstrous-feminine- Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis; Media Matrix- Sexing the New Reality and Phallic Panic- Film, Horror & the Primal Uncanny. She is also a well-known film critic and media commentator, and her writings on cinema have been translated into many languages for a range of international journals and anthologies.
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