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- Title
Recycling Hollywood: The Case of Classical and 1990s Cinema.
- Authors
Martausová, Martina
- Abstract
This paper examines the implications of Hollywood's tendency to recycle formulas. It proposes a pattern of a recycled narrative structure which reinforces dominant ideologies and determines the mode of male representation in mainstream cinema, focusing on two specific cinematic eras – the classical period and 1990s Hollywood cinema. The comparison of these two periods reveals the mutual inter-reliance of notions that are still vital and evocative in cultural research – ideology and gender representation – and uncovers the tendencies and practices used by Hollywood to secure its dominant position in contemporary productions. It also discloses practices which, in Foucaultian terminology, help dominant ideologies engrave American mythology and reinforce "the pursuit of conformity" (Foucault 32-50).
- Subjects
NARRATIVES; CONFORMITY in literature; CONFORMITY; MIMESIS in literature; MOTION picture theaters; FOUCAULT, Michel, 1926-1984; CROSS-cultural studies
- Publication
Ostrava Journal of English Philology, 2014, Vol 6, Issue 1, p117
- ISSN
1803-8174
- Publication type
Article