An introduction to film studies / edited by Jill Nelmes.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Routledge, 2011.Edition: 5th edDescription: 536 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780415582575 (hbk.) :
- 9780415582599 (pbk.) :
- 9780203824139 (e-book)
- 791.43 NEL
- PN1994 .I537 2011
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Long Loan | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending | 791.43 NEL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Checked out | 12/11/2018 | 223632 |
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.