THE CINEMA DREAMS ITS RIVALS: MEDIA FANTASY FILMS FROM RADIO TO THE INTERNET.THE CINEMA DREAMS ITS RIVALS: MEDIA FANTASY FILMS FROM RADIO TO THE INTERNET by Paul Young
Paul Antony Young (born 17 January 1956) is an English pop musician. He is not to be confused with the late singer Paul Young who was in Sad Café and Mike & The Mechanics. . University of Minnesota (body, education) University of Minnesota - The home of Gopher. http://umn.edu/. Address: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Press/360 pp./$75.00 (hb), $25.00 (sb). In The Cinema Dreams Its Rivals, Paul Young integrates media industry history, historiography historiography Writing of history, especially that based on the critical examination of sources and the synthesis of chosen particulars from those sources into a narrative that will stand the test of critical methods. of public discourse on media industries, and film analysis to produce a compelling book that offers multiple payoffs for the reader. On one level, Young delivers a succinct account of the transformations of media "rivals" of cinema, from radio to television to the Internet. On another level, he draws the reader into the contemporary landscape within which each media was received by the film industry and by the public through an examination of advertisements, cartoons, newspaper articles, trade journals, and other popular discourse. Young demonstrates keen facility with industrial histories as well as cultural histories of cinema and its rival media, often covering well-tread territory to reveal new insights. However, where he really delivers is in his discussion of media fantasy films. Young opts for the survey model, discussing numerous films briefly rather than providing an extensive analysis of just a few. While this can be frustrating frus·trate tr.v. frus·trat·ed, frus·trat·ing, frus·trates 1. a. To prevent from accomplishing a purpose or fulfilling a desire; thwart: at times, leaving the reader desiring more details--particularly for those films that are not easily accessible to contemporary viewers--it accomplishes the task of convincing the reader that a genre of media fantasy films not only exists, but also transforms over time in relation to changes in the industrial context of cinema. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] AMY A`my´ n. 1. A friend. SHORE is an assistant professor at the State University of New York at Oswego The State University of New York at Oswego, also known as Oswego State, was founded in 1861 as Oswego Normal School by Edward Austin Sheldon and became the New York State Teachers College at Oswego in 1948. where she teaches in the Cinema and Screen Studies program. |
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