Alternative Worlds in Hollywood Cinema
Distributed for Intellect Ltd
224 pages
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62 halftones
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7 x 9
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© 2008
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Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One: Establishing Contexts
Part One: Imagined Worlds
Chapter Two: Imagined Worlds
Chapter Three: Making it Home: The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939) & The Woman in the Window (Fritz Lang, 1944)
Chapter Four: Return to Innocence: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michael Gondry, 2004)
Part Two: Potential Worlds
Chapter Five: Potential Worlds
Chapter Six: Reclaiming the Real: It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946)
Chapter Seven: The Search for Tomorrow: Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis, 1993)
Part Three: Other Worlds
Chapter Eight: Other Worlds
Chapter Nine: Life Beyond Reason: Brigadoon (Vincente Minnelli, 1954)
Chapter Ten: Rehearsal Space: Pleasantville (Gary Ross, 1998)
Conclusion
Filmography
Bibliography
Index
Review Quotes
Pat Brereton, Dublin City University, author of Hollywood Utopia
“The book is very readable . . . an important area of film study. The most original aspects of the book are the close readings of the films discussed and how these readings cohere across a single thesis.”
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