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Screen Captures: Film in the Age of Emergency offers a vibrant and accessible collection of essays that explore how films and changes in the media industries reflect and influence our political, cultural, technological, and ecological moment. Critic Stephen Lee Naish reveals what lies just out of frame: the climate crisis, the ongoing Disney-fication of franchises, the audience's active participation in the rewriting and reproduction of their attention, and the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the movie theaters. Screen Captures explores these tensions from the rebooted Star Wars franchise to the dominance of superheroes, the pop cultural memeification of Nicholas Cage to the artistic worlds of David Lynch, the failing American Dream in the American Pie franchise, and the female interpretation of toxic masculinity on screen and in public life. Naish argues that film isn't merely escapism and entertainment—it's a political space that bleeds into our daily lives. Appealing to pop culture fans and film critics alike, these essays challenge the reader to question, critique, and go beyond passive consumption of what we see on our screens.
Contents
Preface to the New Edition
Preface
Star Wars Accelerationism: The Triumphs and Failures of the Sequel Trilogy
Shut Up, Capitalism!: Socialist Superheroes in Film and Life
Post-Catastrophe Cinema: It's the End of the World and We Know It
Metropolis Now!: Navigating the Cinematic City
Men on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: Cinematic SCUM Masculinity
Northern Exposure: North Korea in Film and as Film
The Middle Word in Life: The Creative life of Dennis Hopper and David Lynch
Being Nicolas Cage: From National Laughing Stock to National Treasure
All-American Tragedy: The American Pie Trilogy as Cautionary Capitalist Tale
The Opening Line of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Book and Film)
Crying at Robots: Emotional Responses to Artificial Life
The Slow Dissolve: Goodbye to Reality, Hello to Hyperreality
Afterword: Cinema During and After a Pandemic
Endnotes
Acknowledgments
