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These generic aspects constitute a cosmopolitan gesture in Petzold's work as he interprets and elaborates on cult genre films and popular genres, including horror, film noir, and melodrama. Fisher explores these popular genres while injecting them with themes like terrorism, globalization, and immigration, central issues for European art cinema. 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Instead of building up to a devastating occurrence, David Simon's much anticipated follow-up to The Wire (2002-8) unfolds with characters coping in the wake of catastrophe, in a mode of what Fisher explores as a prevailing mode of \"\"afterness.\"\" Treme charts these changes while also memorializing the number of New Orleans cultures that were immediately endangered. David Simon's and Eric Overmyer's Treme (2010-13) attempts something unprecedented for a multi-season series. Although the show follows, in some ways, in the celebrated footsteps of The Wire-for example, in its elegiac tracking of the historical struggles of an American city-Fisher investigates how Treme varies from The Wire's work with genre and what replaces it: The Wire is a careful, even baroque variation on the police drama, while Treme dispenses with genre altogether. This poses considerable challenges for popular television, which Simon and Overmyer address in several ways, including offering a carefully montaged map of New Orleans and foregrounding the distance witnessing of watershed events there. Another way in which Treme sets itself apart is its memorialization of the city's inestimable contributions to American music, especially to jazz, soul, rhythm and blues, rap, rock, and funk. Treme gives such music and its many makers unprecedented attention, both in terms of screen time for music and narrative exposition around musicians. A key element of the volume is its look at the show's themes of race, crime, and civil rights as well as the corporate versus community recovery and remaking of the city. Treme's synthesizing mélange of the arts in their specific geographical context, coupled with political and socio-economic analysis of the city, highlights the show's unique approach. Fans of the works of Simon and Overmyer, as well as television studies students and scholars, will enjoy this keen-eyed approach to a beloved show.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49731848503569,"sku":"NGR9780814341513","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50367758926097,"sku":"CIN0814341519G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52662878798097,"sku":"NLS9780814341513","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0814341519.jpg?v=1763478414"},{"product_id":"generic-histories-of-german-cinema-book-jaimey-fisher-9781571135704","title":"Generic Histories of German Cinema","description":"Offers a fresh approach to German film studies by tracing key genres -- including horror, the thriller, Heimat films, and war films -- over the course of German cinema history","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52335730557201,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52335731278097,"sku":"NLS9781571135704","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781571135704.jpg?v=1758160969"},{"product_id":"collapse-of-the-conventional-book-jaimey-fisher-9780814333778","title":"The Collapse of the Conventional","description":"Presents contributions from prominent German film studies scholars to examine the current politically charged and provocative moment in German filmmaking historically, ideologically, and formally as another break with cinematic convention.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52478089396497,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52478090412305,"sku":"NLS9780814333778","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780814333778.jpg?v=1763226037"},{"product_id":"one-flew-over-the-cuckoo-s-nest-book-jaimey-fisher-9781839026669","title":"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest","description":"\u003cp\u003eMilos Forman's \u003ci\u003eOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest\u003c\/i\u003e, was met with widespread critical and commercial success on its release in 1975. 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Analyzing the film's controversial adaptation from Ken Kesey's best-selling 1962 novel, he contextualizes it in relation to the relatively uncomplicated adaptations of \u003ci\u003eA Clockwork Orange\u003c\/i\u003e (1971), \u003ci\u003eThe Godfather\u003c\/i\u003e (1972) and \u003ci\u003eThe Exorcist\u003c\/i\u003e (1973).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Through a close reading of key scenes depicting electroconvulsive (\"shock\") therapy and lobotomies, Fisher analyzes the film's critique of the American mental health infrastructure and its influence in instigating a broader rethinking of trauma, mental illness and institutionalization in the 1960s and 1970s within the context of the anti-psychiatry movement. He goes on to examine the racial implications of re-centering the film's narrative around Randle Patrick McMurphy (Jack Nicholson), and what this meant for the character of Indigenous patient \"Chief\" Bromden (Will Sampson Jr.). While the latter was the primary person and perspective through which the novel was narrated, his role was significantly diminished within the film.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Finally, outlining the film's high-profile afterlife, Fisher underscores its unique position in US cinema and cultural history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52490563256593,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":52490563322129,"sku":"NGR9781839026669","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-jaimey-fisher.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}