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PublisherManchester University Press
ISBN-100719072557
ISBN-139780719072550
eBay Product ID (ePID)63883966
Product Key Features
Book TitleBeginning Film Studies
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2008
TopicFilm / General, Film / History & Criticism
IllustratorYes
GenrePerforming Arts
AuthorAndrew Dix
Book SeriesBeginnings Mup Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight13.7 Oz
Item Length5.1 in
Item Width7.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2008-298769
Reviews"If I were about to start teaching an undergraduate (or graduate) course in film studies, this is the book I would prescribe. If an interested layman asked me, 'What is a good text book for me to use in coming to terms with cinema?', this is the one I'd recommend. Beginning film studies is most elegantly and accessibly written. As well as being wholly literate, it is also frequently witty...this is a book which anyone could take pleasure in reading, for its style as well as for its wealth of information and for its judicious discriminations."-- Brian McFarlane, editor of the Encyclopaedia of British Cinema
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal791.43015
Table Of ContentList of figures Acknowledgements Introduction: what is film studies? From magic lanterns to videogames About this book 1 Seeing film: mise-en-scène analysis Defining mise-en-scène Pro-filmic elements of mise-en-scène Cinematography Colour and its meanings Analysing mise-en-scène: In the Mood for Love Selected reading Useful websites 2 Film editing: theories and histories Beyond the shot Principles and practices of continuity editing Continuity editing and its discontents Montage(s) Meanings of the jump cut Analysing editing: Strike and Matewan Selected reading Useful websites 3 Hearing film: analysing soundtracks Deafening silents Sound and fury Terminologies of sound analysis Music for films Analysing soundtrack: Le Mépris Selected reading Useful websites 4 Film and narrative Russian Formalists at the cinema Time and motion pictures The sense of an ending Narrative and power Analysing narrative: 21 Grams Selected reading Useful websites 5 Film and authorship Auteur studies: Cahiers du cinéma and other journals The problems of auteurism The rebirth of the author Digital auteurs Analysing authorship: David Lynch Selected reading Useful websites 6 Film and genre Taxonomies of film genre Threads, prisms, maps Generic communities; or, the strange case of the cycling film Genres and history The end of genre? Analysing genre: the high school movie Selected reading Useful websites 7 Star studies Political economies of film stardom The making and meaning of star personas Seeing stars National and transnational stars Tiger, not James, Woods Analysing stars: Johnny Depp Selected reading Useful websites 8 Film and ideology Class struggle - and the struggle for class - in film studies A very short history of gender in film studies Queering cinema Unthinking racism in film studies Analysing ideology: Far From Heaven Selected reading Useful websites 9 Film production Hollywood Beyond Hollywood: two examples National and transnational film Analysing production: In This World Selected reading Useful websites 10 Film consumption Places and experiences Cinema before cinemas Spaces of cinemagoing Home lookin Analysing consumption: Metro Cinema, Derby Selected reading Useful websites Conclusion: film studies in the digital age Selected reading Useful websites Further reading Online resources
SynopsisBeginning film studies offers the most lucid, thorough and up-to-the-minute introduction to this popular subject. Written with verve and wit, it reviews a wealth of significant trends in the discipline's past and present, and looks ahead to new directions for film studies.The discussions are enlivened by references to film cultures as diverse as 'classical' Hollywood, the French 'New Wave' and India, to stars like Johnny Depp, genres such as noir, romance and action, it also examines more 'geographical' turns such as production and consumption. Each chapter concentrates on the essential elements, and each contains full bibliographies, stop and think sections and lists of appropriate websites.Comprehensive and entertaining, it is sure to take its place alongside the popular and bestselling titles already published in this series., Beginning film studies offers the most lucid, thorough and up-to-the-minute introduction to this popular subject. Written with verve and wit, it reviews a wealth of significant trends in the discipline's past and present, and looks ahead to new directions for film studies. The discussions are enlivened by references to film cultures as diverse as 'classical' Hollywood, the French 'New Wave' and India, to stars like Johnny Depp, genres such as noir, romance and action, it also examines more 'geographical' turns such as production and consumption. Each chapter concentrates on the essential elements, and each contains full bibliographies, stop and think sections and lists of appropriate websites. Comprehensive and entertaining, it is sure to take its place alongside the popular and bestselling titles already published in this series.
LC Classification NumberPN1995
