An introduction to film studies /
An introduction to film studies /
edited by Jill Nelmes.
- 5th ed.
- London : Routledge, 2011.
- 536 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Previous ed.: 2007. Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part one: Cinema as institution: technology, industry and audience -- 1.The industrial contexts of film production. Searle Kochbert -- 2.Contemporary film technology. WIlliam Whittington -- Part two: Approaches to studying film: form and text. Patrick Phillips -- 4.Film form and narrative. Susan Speidel -- 5.Spectator, audience and response. Patrick Phillips -- 6.Cinematic authorship and the film auteur. Paul Watson -- 7.Star studies: text, pleasure and identity -- Part three: studying genre -- 8.Approaches to film genre - taxonomy/genericity/metaphor. Paul Watson -- 9.The documentary form. Paul Ward -- 10.The language of animation. Paul Wells -- Part IV.Cinema, identity and the politics of representation. Jill Nelmes -- 12.Lesbian and gay cinema. Chris Jones -- 13.Spectacle, stereotypes and filsm of the African diaspora. Terri Francis -- Part V: Cinema, nation and national identity -- 14.British cinema. Laurence Napper -- 15.Indian cinema. Lalitha Gapalan -- 16.Latin American cinema. Linda Craig -- 17.The Soviet montage cinema of the 1920s. Mark Joyce -- Case Studies.
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 (hbk.) : �80.00 9780415582599 (pbk.) : �26.99 9780203824139 (e-book)
2011013133
Motion pictures.
Motion pictures--Evaluation
Film criticism.
Motion picture plays--History and criticism
Performing Arts.
Media studies
Films, cinema
PN1994 / .I537 2011
791.43 NEL
Previous ed.: 2007. Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part one: Cinema as institution: technology, industry and audience -- 1.The industrial contexts of film production. Searle Kochbert -- 2.Contemporary film technology. WIlliam Whittington -- Part two: Approaches to studying film: form and text. Patrick Phillips -- 4.Film form and narrative. Susan Speidel -- 5.Spectator, audience and response. Patrick Phillips -- 6.Cinematic authorship and the film auteur. Paul Watson -- 7.Star studies: text, pleasure and identity -- Part three: studying genre -- 8.Approaches to film genre - taxonomy/genericity/metaphor. Paul Watson -- 9.The documentary form. Paul Ward -- 10.The language of animation. Paul Wells -- Part IV.Cinema, identity and the politics of representation. Jill Nelmes -- 12.Lesbian and gay cinema. Chris Jones -- 13.Spectacle, stereotypes and filsm of the African diaspora. Terri Francis -- Part V: Cinema, nation and national identity -- 14.British cinema. Laurence Napper -- 15.Indian cinema. Lalitha Gapalan -- 16.Latin American cinema. Linda Craig -- 17.The Soviet montage cinema of the 1920s. Mark Joyce -- Case Studies.
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 (hbk.) : �80.00 9780415582599 (pbk.) : �26.99 9780203824139 (e-book)
2011013133
Motion pictures.
Motion pictures--Evaluation
Film criticism.
Motion picture plays--History and criticism
Performing Arts.
Media studies
Films, cinema
PN1994 / .I537 2011
791.43 NEL