Introduction to film studies /
- fifth edition
- Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.
- xxv, 536 pages : illustration
The industrial contexts of film production / Searle Kochberg -- Contemporary film technology / William Whittington -- Before getting to the bigger picture / Patrick Phillips -- Film form and narrative / Susan Speidel -- Spectator, audience and response / Patrick Phillips -- Cinematic authorship and the film auteur / Paul Watson -- Star studies: text, pleasure, identity / Paul Watson -- Approaches to film genre: taxonomy/genericity/metaphor / Paul Watson -- The documentary form / Paul Ward -- The language of animation / Paul Wells -- Gender and film / Jill Nelmes -- Lesbian and gay cinema / Chris Jones -- Spectacle, stereotypes and films of the African diaspora / Terri Francis -- British cinema / Lawrence Napper -- Indian cinema / Lalitha Gopalan -- Latin American cinema / Linda Craig -- The Soviet montage cinema of the 1920's / Mark Joyce.
This is a comprehensive textbook for students of cinema. It provides a guide to the main concepts used to analyse the film industry and film texts, and also introduces some of the world's key national cinemas.
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The industrial contexts of film production / Searle Kochberg -- Contemporary film technology / William Whittington -- Before getting to the bigger picture / Patrick Phillips -- Film form and narrative / Susan Speidel -- Spectator, audience and response / Patrick Phillips -- Cinematic authorship and the film auteur / Paul Watson -- Star studies: text, pleasure, identity / Paul Watson -- Approaches to film genre: taxonomy/genericity/metaphor / Paul Watson -- The documentary form / Paul Ward -- The language of animation / Paul Wells -- Gender and film / Jill Nelmes -- Lesbian and gay cinema / Chris Jones -- Spectacle, stereotypes and films of the African diaspora / Terri Francis -- British cinema / Lawrence Napper -- Indian cinema / Lalitha Gopalan -- Latin American cinema / Linda Craig -- The Soviet montage cinema of the 1920's / Mark Joyce.
This is a comprehensive textbook for students of cinema. It provides a guide to the main concepts used to analyse the film industry and film texts, and also introduces some of the world's key national cinemas.
9780415582575 0415582571 9780415582599 0415582598 9780203824139 020382413
Motion pictures.
791.43