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A Critical Companion to Robert Zemeckis
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2020
Summary
A Critical Companion to Robert Zemeckis offers a comprehensive, academic and detailed study of the works of Robert Zemeckis, whose films include successful productions such as the Back to the Future trilogy (1985-90), Forrest Gump (1994), Contact (1997), Cast Away (2000) and The Polar Express (2004), but also lesser known films such as I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978), Used Cars (1980), and Allied (2015). Most of Zemeckis’ major productions were not only successful when they were first released but continue to enjoy popularity—with critics and fans alike—even today. This volume investigates several distinct areas of Zemeckisʼ works and addresses the different approaches: the philosophical, the artistic, the socio-cultural, and the personal. The methodologies adopted by the contributors differ significantly from each other, thus offering the reader a variegated and compelling picture of Zemeckisʼ oeuvre, which includes nineteen films. Contrary to the few volumes published in the past on the subject, the chapters in this volume offer specific case studies that have been previously ignored (or only partially mentioned) by other scholars. A Critical Companion to Robert Zemeckis offers a great variety of interdisciplinary approaches to Zemeckis’ films, illuminating, re-reading and/or interpreting for the first time the entire career of the director, from his first films to the most recent ones.
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Copyright year
2020
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-2345-4
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-2346-1
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
268
Product type
Edited Book
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Dedication No access
Contents No access
Notes No access
References No access
Chapter 1 “You Gotta Get Their Friendship, Their Trust, Then Get Their Money” No access
Chapter 2 Till Death Do Us Part No access
Chapter 3 Used Cars, Flying Cars, and Streetcars No access
Chapter 4 Deconstructing the Femme Fatale No access
Chapter 5 The Horror, the Horror No access
Chapter 6 Allied No access
Chapter 7 Luck, Happiness, and Forrest Gump No access
Chapter 8 The Things We Can’t See No access
Chapter 9 White Christian Heroes and Others in Back to the Future, Forrest Gump, and Welcome to Marwen No access
Chapter 10 Romancing the Male Gaze No access
Chapter 11 Contact with Reality, Flight from Truth No access
Chapter 12 Forrest Gump Seen Critically through Crip Theory No access
Chapter 13 How to Do Things with Slow Cinema in Hollywood No access
Chapter 14 Time Warps No access
Chapter 15 Do You Speak French? No access
Chapter 16 Real and Fictional Ghost Stories in What Lies Beneath No access
Chapter 17 Neither Art Nor Love Will Save Us No access
Chapter 18 “Well, You Coming?” No access
Index No access Pages 259 - 262
About the Contributors No access Pages 263 - 268
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