Beginning film studies / Andrew Dix.
Series: BeginningsPublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2008Description: xv, 350 p. : ill., ports. ; 20 cm001: BDZ0008057086ISBN: 9780719072550 (pbk.) :; 9780719072543 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Motion pictures
| Film criticism | Performing ArtsDDC classification: 791.43015 LOC classification: PN1995Summary: 'Beginning Film Studies' offers coverage of the field of film studies that is detailed and scholarly, but also compact and affordable. As well as covering the essential historical ground, it is also up-to-the-minute in its mapping of the field, looking at movie fan fiction and stars' websites.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'Beginning Film Studies' offers coverage of the field of film studies that is detailed and scholarly, but also compact and affordable. As well as covering the essential historical ground, it is also up-to-the-minute in its mapping of the field, looking at movie fan fiction and stars' websites.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of figures (p. xiii)
- Acknowledgements (p. xvii)
- Introduction: what is film studies? (p. 1)
- From magic lanterns to videogames (p. 1)
- About this book (p. 3)
- Note on the text (p. 8)
- 1 Seeing film: mise-en-scene analysis (p. 9)
- Defining mise-en-scene (p. 10)
- Pro-filmic elements of mise-en-scene (p. 12)
- Setting (p. 13)
- Props (p. 14)
- Costume (p. 15)
- Lighting (p. 17)
- Acting (p. 19)
- Stop and think (p. 21)
- Cinematography (p. 22)
- Distance (p. 23)
- Height, angle and level (p. 25)
- Masking (p. 27)
- Movement (p. 27)
- Focus (p. 29)
- Stop and think (p. 30)
- Colour and its meanings (p. 31)
- Analysing mise-en-scene: In the Mood for Love (p. 35)
- Selected reading (p. 40)
- Useful websites (p. 42)
- 2 Film editing: theories and histories (p. 43)
- Beyond the shot (p. 45)
- Principles and practices of continuity editing (p. 49)
- Stop and think (p. 54)
- Continuity editing and its discontents (p. 55)
- Montage(s) (p. 58)
- Meanings of the jump cut (p. 64)
- Stop and think (p. 66)
- Analysing editing: Strike and Matewan (p. 67)
- Selected reading (p. 72)
- Useful websites (p. 73)
- 3 Hearing film: analysing soundtrack (p. 74)
- Deafening silents (p. 75)
- Sound and fury (p. 78)
- Terminologies of sound analysis (p. 80)
- Music for films (p. 85)
- Stop and think (p. 90)
- Analysing soundtrack: Le Mepris (p. 92)
- Selected reading (p. 97)
- Useful websites (p. 99)
- 4 Film and narrative (p. 101)
- Russian Formalists at the cinema (p. 103)
- Stop and think (p. 108)
- Time and motion pictures (p. 109)
- Stop and think (p. 114)
- The sense of an ending (p. 116)
- Stop and think (p. 119)
- Narrative and power (p. 119)
- Analysing narrative: 21 Grams (p. 123)
- Selected reading (p. 128)
- Useful websites (p. 130)
- 5 Film and authorship (p. 131)
- Auteur studies: Cahiers du cinema and other journals (p. 132)
- Stop and think (p. 137)
- The problems of auteurism (p. 138)
- Playing parlour games (p. 139)
- The collaborative art of film (p. 140)
- The death of the author (p. 142)
- Author and genre (p. 144)
- Stop and think (p. 146)
- The rebirth of the author (p. 147)
- Analytic philosophy (p. 147)
- Feminism (p. 148)
- Legal studies (p. 149)
- Digital auteurs (p. 150)
- Analysing authorship: David Lynch (p. 153)
- Selected reading (p. 159)
- Useful websites (p. 161)
- 6 Film and genre (p. 162)
- Taxonomies of film genre (p. 165)
- Stop and think (p. 169)
- Threads, prisms, maps (p. 170)
- Generic communities, or the strange case of the cycling film (p. 174)
- Stop and think (p. 177)
- Genres and history (p. 178)
- Stop and think (p. 182)
- The end of genre? (p. 183)
- Analysing genre: the high school movie (p. 185)
- Selected reading (p. 189)
- Useful websites (p. 191)
- 7 Star studies (p. 192)
- Political economies of film stardom (p. 194)
- The making and meaning of star personas (p. 198)
- Stop and think (p. 205)
- Seeing stars (p. 206)
- Stop and think (p. 210)
- National and transnational stars (p. 212)
- Tiger, not James, Woods (p. 215)
- Analysing stars: Johnny Depp (p. 217)
- Selected reading (p. 223)
- Useful websites (p. 225)
- 8 Film and ideology (p. 226)
- Class struggle - and the struggle for class - in film studies (p. 227)
- Stop and think (p. 231)
- A very short history of gender in film studies (p. 232)
- 'Down with sexism, up with women!' (p. 232)
- Theories of the spectatrix (p. 234)
- The trials of psychoanalytic feminism (p. 238)
- From man to masculinities (p. 241)
- Stop and think (p. 243)
- Queering cinema (p. 244)
- Stop and think (p. 248)
- Unthinking racism in film studies (p. 250)
- Stop and think (p. 255)
- Analysing ideology: Far From Heaven (p. 257)
- Selected reading (p. 263)
- Useful websites (p. 267)
- 9 Film production (p. 268)
- Hollywood (p. 269)
- 'Classical' Hollywood (p. 270)
- 'Post-classical' Hollywood (p. 272)
- Stop and think (p. 276)
- Beyond Hollywood: two examples (p. 278)
- Bollywood (p. 279)
- Hong Kong (p. 282)
- Stop and think (p. 285)
- National and transnational film (p. 286)
- Analysing production: In This World (p. 290)
- Selected reading (p. 295)
- Useful websites (p. 298)
- 10 Film consumption (p. 299)
- Places and experiences (p. 299)
- Cinema before cinemas (p. 303)
- Spaces of cinemagoing (p. 305)
- 'Optical fairylands' (p. 305)
- 'Gated communities' (p. 308)
- Stop and think (p. 311)
- Home looking (p. 312)
- Stop and think (p. 317)
- Analysing consumption: Metro Cinema, Derby (p. 318)
- Selected reading (p. 323)
- Useful websites (p. 325)
- Conclusion: film studies in the digital age (p. 326)
- Selected reading (p. 332)
- Useful websites (p. 332)
- Further reading (p. 334)
- Online resources (p. 340)
- Index (p. 343)
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