Approaches to popular film / edited by Joanne Hollows and Mark Jancovich.
Material type: TextSeries: Inside popular filmPublication details: Manchester : Manchester University Press, c1995.Description: 203p. : ill. ; 23cmISBN:- 9780719043925 (cased) :
- 9780719043932 (pbk) :
- 071904393X (pbk.)
- 791.43 HOL
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Bibliography: p192-196. _ Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [192]-196) and index.
Introduction : popular film and cultural distinctions / Joanne Hollows and Mark Jancovich -- Mass culture theory and political economy / Joanne Hollows -- Auteurism and film authorship / Helen Stoddart -- Genre theory and criticism / Peter Hutchings -- Star studies / Paul McDonald -- Historical poetics / Henry Jenkins -- Screen theory / Mark Jancovich -- From psychoanalytic feminism to popular feminism / Lisa Taylor -- Cultural studies and popular film / Andy Willis.
An introduction to popular film and the way in which it is studied, this book brings together the critical approaches and issues that have sought to define popular film from the 1950s to the present day. It inlcudes discussion of mass culture theory and political economy.