R. Barton Palmer

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Allegory and the Poetic Self

First-Person Narration in Late Medieval Literature

University Press of Florida
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Autism in Film and Television

On the Island

University of Texas Press

An essay collection reckons with pop-cultural depictions of autism.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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The Many Cinemas of Michael Curtiz

University of Texas Press

Leading film studies scholars explore the astonishing range of Michael Curtiz, the most prolific director of studio-era Hollywood, whose nearly one hundred films include Casablanca, White Christmas, and Mildred Pierce.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Machaut's Legacy

The Judgment Poetry Tradition in the Later Middle Ages and Beyond

University Press of Florida
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Cycles, Sequels, Spin-offs, Remakes, and Reboots

Multiplicities in Film and Television

University of Texas Press

Surveying a wide range of international productions, this collection of essays by established and emerging scholars investigates the important cultural work performed by repetition, or multiplicities, in film and television.

  • Copyright year: 2016
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Shot on Location

Postwar American Cinema and the Exploration of Real Place

Rutgers University Press

Renowned film scholar R. Barton Palmer explores the historical, ideological, economic, and technical developments that led Hollywood filmmakers of the late 1940s and 1950s to increasingly head outside the studio and capture footage of real places. Examining works ranging from Sunset Blvd. to The Searchers, Shot on Location discovers the massive influence that wartime newsreels had on the postwar Hollywood film, as the blurring of the formal boundaries between cinematic journalism and fiction lent a “reality effect” to otherwise implausible stories. 

  • Copyright year: 2016
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Thinking in the Dark

Cinema, Theory, Practice

Rutgers University Press

Thinking in the Dark introduces readers to twenty-one key theorists whose work has made the greatest impact on film scholarship today, including everyone from Sergei Eisenstein to Michel Foucault, from Judith Butler to André Bazin. Each chapter is written by an expert who explains a different theorist’s key ideas, then gives concrete examples of how they might be applied to both a classic film and a contemporary one. Ideal for teachers and students of film as well as contemporary and modern philosophy, critical theory and semotics, also of interest to the general reader exploring such topics.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Thinking in the Dark

Cinema, Theory, Practice

Rutgers University Press

Thinking in the Dark introduces readers to twenty-one key theorists whose work has made the greatest impact on film scholarship today, including everyone from Sergei Eisenstein to Michel Foucault, from Judith Butler to André Bazin. Each chapter is written by an expert who explains a different theorist’s key ideas, then gives concrete examples of how they might be applied to both a classic film and a contemporary one. Ideal for teachers and students of film as well as contemporary and modern philosophy, critical theory and semotics, also of interest to the general reader exploring such topics.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Pretty People

Movie Stars of the 1990s

Edited by Anna Everett
Rutgers University Press

In the 1990s, American civil society got upended and reordered as many social, cultural, political, and economic institutions were changed forever. Pretty People examines a wide range of Hollywood icons who reflect how stardom in that decade was transformed as the nation itself, signaling significant changes to familiar ideas about gender, race, ethnicity, age, class, sexuality, and nationality.

  • Copyright year: 2012
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A Little Solitaire

John Frankenheimer and American Film

Edited by Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer; Introduction by R. Barton Palmer
Rutgers University Press

Little Solitaire offers the only multidisciplinary critical account of Frankenheimer's oeuvre. Especially emphasized is his deep and passionate engagement with national politics and the irrepressible need of human beings to assert their rights and individuality in the face of organizations that would reduce them to silence and anonymity.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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An Anthology of Medieval Love Debate Poetry

Edited and translated by Barbara K. Altmann and R. Barton Palmer
University Press of Florida
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Larger Than Life

Movie Stars of the 1950s

Edited by R. Barton Palmer; Introduction by R. Barton Palmer
Rutgers University Press

Larger Than Life offers a comprehensive view of the star system in 1950s Hollywood and also in-depth discussions of the decade's major stars, including Montgomery Clift, Judy Holliday, Jerry Lewis, James Mason, Marilyn Monroe, Kim Novak, Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly, Jayne Mansfield, and Audrey Hepburn.

  • Copyright year: 2010
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