Stella Bruzzi
Biographic Data
| ID | 3860173 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stella Bruzzi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stella |
| FAMILY NAME | Bruzzi |
| SIGNATURE | BRUZZI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Lockdown Cultures
Recording Reality, Desiring the RealThe Right to Play Oneself
Published as part of the Visible Evidence series for Minnesota University Press, these books by two of documentary's most significant academic figures are to be welcomed. Written in a decade of unprecedented engagement with theatrical-release documentaries (Senna [Asif Kapadia, 2012], The Act of Killing [Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012], The Pervert's Guide to Ideology [Sophie Fiennes, 2012], Finding Vivian Maier [John Maloof and Charlie Siskel, 2013]) …
Dressing Mildred Pierce
Journal Article Dressing Mildred Pierce: costume and identity across the ages Get access Stella Bruzzi Stella Bruzzi [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 54, Issue 3, Autumn 2013, Pages 397–402, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/hjt033 Published: 01 September 2013
Approximation
The article explores the idea of 'approximation': the layered understanding of historical moments and events via works whose aim is to approximate reality and all its ramifications, rather than more straightforwardly to represent it. It sets out to discuss the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, 11 September 2001, through juxtaposition with representations and re-enactments of their most notable and traumatic antecedent, namely the assas…
Zaprudered
The term ‘Zaprudered’, taken from William Gibson's 2003 novel Pattern Recognition, is a term applied to, as Vågnes explains, ‘mysterious segments of footage, posted on a website, [which] continue to haunt its characters’ (p. 138), footage that becomes ‘Zaprudered’ as it becomes more surreal, more speculative and takes on ‘shadowy but determined lives of its own’ (Gibson, quoted p. 138). Abraham Zapruder, a Dallas dressmaker, went to Dealey Plaza …
A Family Affair
Pomerance's edited anthology is a book about the family in largely, but not exclusively, recent Hollywood films. However, in neither its title nor in the first lines of its introduction is the focus on Hollywood made explicit, which is indicative of the book's pervasive attitude towards Hollywood's traits and values as somehow more universal than they are. This is a large anthology, so to make it more manageable the chapters are grouped under thr…
New Documentary
Praise for New Documentary: 'It's refreshing to find a book that cuts through the tired old debates that have surrounded documentary film and television. It heralds a welcome new approach.' Sight and Sound 'Documentary practice changes so fast that books on the subject are often out of date before they are published. Bruzzi's achievement is to have understood the genre as an activity based on performance rather than observation. This is a fresh p…
New Documentary
Bringing Up Daddy
Chapter Headings 1. Since You Went Away: Fatherhood, Change and the Second World War 2. The Age of the Patriarch: Fathers, Generation and Traditionalism in the 1950s 3. Revolution and Feminist Unrest: Fatherhood Under Attack in the 1960s and 1970s 4. Out of the Past: The Return of Tradition and Masculinity in the 1980s 5. The Next Best Thing: Men in Crisis and the Pluralisation of Fatherhood in the 1990s and 2000s
Tempestuous petticoats
Journal Article Tempestuous petticoats: costume and desire in The Piano Get access Stella Bruzzi Stella Bruzzi Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 36, Issue 3, Summer 1995, Pages 257–266, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/36.3.257 Published: 01 July 1995
Tempestuous petticoats
Journal Article Tempestuous petticoats: costume and desire in The Piano Get access Stella Bruzzi Stella Bruzzi Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 36, Issue 3, Summer 1995, Pages 257–266, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/36.3.257 Published: 01 July 1995
Tempestuous petticoats
Journal Article Tempestuous petticoats: costume and desire in The Piano Get access Stella Bruzzi Stella Bruzzi Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 36, Issue 3, Summer 1995, Pages 257–266, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/36.3.257 Published: 01 July 1995
Bringing Up Daddy
Chapter Headings 1. Since You Went Away: Fatherhood, Change and the Second World War 2. The Age of the Patriarch: Fathers, Generation and Traditionalism in the 1950s 3. Revolution and Feminist Unrest: Fatherhood Under Attack in the 1960s and 1970s 4. Out of the Past: The Return of Tradition and Masculinity in the 1980s 5. The Next Best Thing: Men in Crisis and the Pluralisation of Fatherhood in the 1990s and 2000s
New Documentary
Praise for New Documentary: 'It's refreshing to find a book that cuts through the tired old debates that have surrounded documentary film and television. It heralds a welcome new approach.' Sight and Sound 'Documentary practice changes so fast that books on the subject are often out of date before they are published. Bruzzi's achievement is to have understood the genre as an activity based on performance rather than observation. This is a fresh p…
New Documentary
A Family Affair
Pomerance's edited anthology is a book about the family in largely, but not exclusively, recent Hollywood films. However, in neither its title nor in the first lines of its introduction is the focus on Hollywood made explicit, which is indicative of the book's pervasive attitude towards Hollywood's traits and values as somehow more universal than they are. This is a large anthology, so to make it more manageable the chapters are grouped under thr…
Zaprudered
The term ‘Zaprudered’, taken from William Gibson's 2003 novel Pattern Recognition, is a term applied to, as Vågnes explains, ‘mysterious segments of footage, posted on a website, [which] continue to haunt its characters’ (p. 138), footage that becomes ‘Zaprudered’ as it becomes more surreal, more speculative and takes on ‘shadowy but determined lives of its own’ (Gibson, quoted p. 138). Abraham Zapruder, a Dallas dressmaker, went to Dealey Plaza …
Dressing Mildred Pierce
Journal Article Dressing Mildred Pierce: costume and identity across the ages Get access Stella Bruzzi Stella Bruzzi [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 54, Issue 3, Autumn 2013, Pages 397–402, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/hjt033 Published: 01 September 2013
Approximation
The article explores the idea of 'approximation': the layered understanding of historical moments and events via works whose aim is to approximate reality and all its ramifications, rather than more straightforwardly to represent it. It sets out to discuss the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, 11 September 2001, through juxtaposition with representations and re-enactments of their most notable and traumatic antecedent, namely the assas…
Recording Reality, Desiring the RealThe Right to Play Oneself
Published as part of the Visible Evidence series for Minnesota University Press, these books by two of documentary's most significant academic figures are to be welcomed. Written in a decade of unprecedented engagement with theatrical-release documentaries (Senna [Asif Kapadia, 2012], The Act of Killing [Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012], The Pervert's Guide to Ideology [Sophie Fiennes, 2012], Finding Vivian Maier [John Maloof and Charlie Siskel, 2013]) …
Lockdown Cultures
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