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Title: | Striking a balance between culture and fun: 'Quality' meets hitman genre in 'In Bruges' |
Authors: | King, G |
Keywords: | In Bruges;Indiewood;Hybrid;Irony;Sincerity |
Issue Date: | 2011 |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Citation: | New Review of Film and Television Studies, 9(2), 132 - 151, 2011 |
Abstract: | This paper gives an analysis of In Bruges (2008) that situates the film as a hybrid product offering a mixture of signifiers of cinematic ‘quality’ and ‘lower’ genre ingredients. This paper also considers the extent to which In Bruges offers a combination of tonal registers in which irony and detachment, as markers of distinction, are blended with a more mainstream-oriented appeal to emotional engagement on the part of the viewer, and considers how this might be related to the broader social and industrial contexts in which it appeared. |
Description: | This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in New Review of Film and Television Studies, 9(2), 132 - 151, 2011, copyright Taylor & Francis, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/17400309.2011.556934. |
URI: | http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17400309.2011.556934#.U6QrA3e-3EM http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/8579 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17400309.2011.556934 |
ISSN: | 1740-0309 |
Appears in Collections: | Media Dept of Social and Political Sciences Research Papers |
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