Browsing by Author "Bingham, Dennis, 1954-"

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    "Before She Was a Virgin. . .": Doris Day and the Decline of Female Film Comedy in the 1950s and 1960s
    (This is a pre-copyedited version of an article accepted for publication in Cinema Journal following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version is available through the University of Texas Press. [BREAK] IUPUI student/staff/faculty: Access to the original article may require subscription and authorized logon ID/password. Please check University Library resources before purchasing an article via the publisher. Questions on finding the original article via our databases? Ask a librarian: [LINK] http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/research/askalibrarian[/LINK]., 2006) Bingham, Dennis, 1954-
    Doris Day's complicated "dialogue" with her audiences varied over the decades, and endures, in a distorted way, in popular memory. This article studies the decline of her film stardom and her retirement from films as concurrent with the definitive end of the female comic as the unequivocal subject, rather than object, of comedy.
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    Frank Miller's Ideals of Heroism
    (2007-05-18T13:39:25Z) Jones, Stephen Matthew; Bingham, Dennis, 1954-; Touponce, William F.; Karnick, Kristine Brunovska, 1958-
    This project responds to previous available literature on the subject of heroism, which tends to deal with either an isolated work or with genre- and archetype-specific analysis, and applies their concepts to case studies of Frank Miller’s various heroic models. In particular, this project addresses the film Sin City and the graphic novel The Dark Knight Strikes Again, arguing that DK2 serves as a departure of sorts from Miller’s ideals of heroism in his middle years (such as those presented in Sin City), as the protagonist becomes more of a revolutionary engaged in revamping society than the vigilante or “lone wolf” on the fringes of society. With the aforementioned sources as a general background, it is evident that Miller’s heroic ideals shift in their active capacity and scope but remain more or less steady in their strong individual sense of ethical duty. In addition, these sources aid in establishing the comparisons Miller actually invites to traditional, “archetypal” understandings of the hero as well as to the particular heroic form of Ayn Rand, which he explicitly references in DK2. Miller’s response to these previous models bolsters the assertion that theories of heroic ideals are inherently political as they deal with representations of the kind of person a hero must be, in turn involving issues of gender, ethnicity and class.
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    ’I Do Want to Live!’: Female Voices, Male Discourse, and Hollywood Biopics
    (This is a pre-copyedited version of an article accepted for publication in Cinema Journal following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version is available through the publisher, University of Texas Press. [BREAK] Cinema Journal is available online at: [LINK]http://www.utexas.edu/utpress[/LINK]. [BREAK] The original article may be found at: [LINK]http://www.jstor.org/stable/1225522[/LINK]., 1999) Bingham, Dennis, 1954-
    Complicating cherished assumptions about film biography, the fifties, and female spectatorship, I Want to Live! finds male filmmakers identifying with a female protagonist in opposition to the male institutions of the media and the law in a work that aligns melodrama with realism.
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    Warren Beatty and the Elusive Male Body in Hollywood Cinema
    (© 1994 Dennis Bingham. [BREAK]The definitive version of the article is available at: [LINK]http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.act2080.0033.001:29[/LINK].[BREAK] Access to the original article may require subscription and authorized logon ID/password. IUPUI faculty/staff/students please check University Library resources before purchasing an article. Questions on finding the original article via our databases? Ask a librarian: [LINK] http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/research/askalibrarian[/LINK]., 1994) Bingham, Dennis, 1954-
    It is said that the movies, and more recently TV, are a school in which males learn the strategies and discourse of sexual engagement. How much more complex the situation has become in the last few decades is discussed.