Film Studies Critical Approaches

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Pub. Date: 2000-02-17
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

The most up-to-date critical guide available, Film Studies: Critical Approaches covers all the significant theories, debates, and approaches to the subject. A team of international experts provides a clear and comprehensive overview of all the major theoretical and critical approaches involved in film analysis, including detailed coverage of established critical traditions--such as semiotics, feminism, and psychoanalysis--as well as important new areas of study such as film audiences and reception, queer theory, and identity politics. Chapter summaries and further reading lists help students to assimilate the material. Ideal for courses in film criticism and textual analysis, Film Studies: Critical Approaches guides students through the maze of theory to the heart of the subject.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
ix
List of Illustrations
xi
General Introduction xiii
John Hill
FILM STUDIES: CRITICAL APPROACHES 1(8)
Introduction to film studies
1(8)
Richard Dyer
Studying the film text 9(40)
The film text and film form
9(19)
Robert P. Kolker
Readings: Written on the Wind
24(2)
Robin Wood
Citizen Kane
26(2)
Peter Wollen
Film acting
28(6)
Paul McDonald
Film costume
34(7)
Pamela Church Gibson
Film music
41(8)
Claudia Gorbman
The film text: theoretical frameworks 49(55)
Classic film theory and semiotics
49(7)
Antony Easthope
Formalism and neo-formalism
56(9)
Ian Christie
Reading: Poetry and prose in cinema
65(1)
Viktor Shklovsky
Impressionism, surrealism, and film theory
65(10)
Robert B. Ray
Film and psychoanalysis
75(14)
Barbara Creed
Post-structuralism and deconstruction
89(5)
Peter Brunette
Film and postmodernism
94(10)
John Hill
Film text and context: gender, ideology, and identities 104(70)
Marxism and film
104(11)
Chuck Kleinhans
Reading: The political thriller debate
114(1)
John Hill
Feminism and film
115(18)
Patricia White
Readings: Rebecca
132(1)
Mary Ann Doane
Rebecca
133(1)
Tania Modleski
Gay and lesbian criticism
133(13)
Anneke Smelik
Queer theory
146(5)
Alexander Doty
Pornography
151(5)
Laura Kipnis
Race, ethnicity, and film
156(11)
Robyn Wiegman
Film and Cultural identity
167(7)
Rey Chow
Film text and context: culture, history, and reception 174(48)
Film and history
174(14)
Dudley Andrew
Sociology and film
188(5)
Andrew Tudor
Cultural studies and film
193(7)
Graeme Turner
Film audiences
200(10)
Jostein Gripsrud
Hermeneutics, reception aesthetics, and film interpretation
210(12)
Noel King
List of Picture Sources and Readings 222(1)
Index of Selected Names and Film Titles 223

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