The Oxford guide to film studies / edited by John Hill ... [et al.]
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TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.Description: xxii, 624 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN: - 0198711247 (pbk.)
- 791.43 HIL
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date, The Oxford Guide to Film Studies is an indispensable guide to the study of film. Top international contributors provide an overview of the main disciplinary approaches to film studies, an explanation of the core concepts and methods involved in film analysis, a survey of the major issues and debates in the study of film, and critical discussion of key areas. Uniquely comprehensive, this book is suitable for any course on cinema or film studies.
Introduction to film studies / Richard Dyer -- The film text and film form / Robert P. Kolker -- Film acting / Paul Mcdonald -- Film costume / Pamela Church Gibson -- Film music / Claudia Gorbman -- Classic film theory and semiotics / Antony Easthope -- Formalism and neo-formalism / Ian Christie -- Impressionism, surrealism and film theory / Robert B. Ray -- Film and psychoanalysis / Barbara Creed -- Post-structuralism and deconstruction / Peter Brunette -- Film and postmodernism / John Hill -- Marxism and film / Chuck Kleinhans -- Feminism and film / Patricia White -- Gay and lesbian criticism / Anneke Smelik -- Queer theory / Alexander Doty -- Pornography / Laura Kipnis -- Race, ethnicity, and film / Robyn Wiegman -- Film and cultural identity / Rey Chow -- Film and history / Dudley Andrew -- Sociology and film / Andrew Tudor -- Cultural studies and film / Graeme Turner -- Film audiences / Jostein Gripsrud -- Hermeneutics, reception aesthetics and film interpretation / Noel King -- American cinema and film history / John Belton -- History and cinema technology / Duncan Petrie -- Hollywood as industry / Douglas Gomery -- Early American film / Tom Gunning -- Classical Hollywood film and melodrama / E. Ann Kaplan -- Post-classical Hollywood / Peter Kramer -- Authorship and Hollywood / Stephen Crofts -- Genre and Hollywood / Tom Ryall -- The star system and Hollywood / Jeremy G. Butler -- Hollywood film and society / Douglas Kellner -- Film policy : Hollywood and beyond / Albert Moran -- Hollywood and the world / Toby Miller -- Concepts of national cinema / Stephen Crofts -- Modernism and the avant-gardes / Murray Smith -- Realism, modernism, and post-colonial theory / Ashish Rajadhyaksha -- The documentary / John Izod and Richard Kilborn -- The animated film / Michael O'Pray -- Issues in European cinema / Ginette Vincendeau -- The avant-gardes and European cinema before 1930 / Ian Christie -- Italian post-war cinema and Neo-Realim / Simona Monticelli -- The French nouvelle vague / Jill Forbes -- New German cinema / Ulrike Sieglohr -- East Central European cinema / Daniel J. Goulding -- European film policy and the response to Hollywood / Armand Mattelart -- Directors and stars : Jean Renoir / Keith Reader ; Ingmar Bergman / Chris Darke ; Chantal Akerman / Cathy Fowler ; Pedro Almodóvar / José Arroyo ; Luc Besson / Susan Hayward --Brigitte Bardot / Ginette Vincendeau -- British cinema / Andrew Higson -- Ireland and cinema / Martin McLoone -- Australian cinema / Elizabeth Jacka -- Canadian cinema / Will Straw -- Issues in world cinema / Wimal Dissanayake -- Indian cinema / Ashish Rajadhyaksha -- Chinese cinema / Bérénice Reynaud -- Hong Kong cinema : Discovery and pre-discovery / Stephen Teo ; China and 1997 / N.K. Leung -- Taiwanese new cinema / Kuan-Hsing Chen -- Japanese cinema / Freda Freiberg -- African cinema / N. Frank Ukadike -- South American cinema / Julianne Burton-Carvjal -- Film and changing technologies / Laura Kipris -- Film and television / John Hill.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of Contributors
- List of Illustrations
- General Introduction
- Part 1 Critical Approaches
- 1 Introduction to film studies
- 2 The film text and film form, Robert P. Kolker Readings: Written on the Wind
- 3 Film acting
- 4 Film costume
- 5 Film music
- 6 Classic film theory and semiotics
- 7 Formalism and neo-formalism Ian Christie Reading: Poetry and prose in cinema
- 8 Impressionism surrealism and film theory
- 9 Film and psychoanalysis
- 10 Post-structuralism and deconstruction
- 11 Film and postmodernism
- 12 Marxism and film
- 13 Feminism and film
- 14 Gay and lesbian criticism
- 15 Queer theory
- 16 Pornography
- 17 Race ethnicity and film
- 18 Film and cultural identity
- 19 Film and history
- 20 Sociology and film
- 21 Cultural studies and film
- 22 Film audiences
- 23 Hermeneutics reception aesthetics and film interpretation
- Part 2 American Cinema and Hollywood: Critical Approaches
- 1 American cinema: history industry and interpretation
- 1 American cinema and film history
- 2 History and cinema technology
- 3 Hollywood as industry
- 4 Early American film
- 5 Classical Hollywood film and melodrama, E. Ann Kaplan Readings: Casablanca
- 6 Post-classical Hollywood
- 7 Authorship and Hollywood, Stephen Crofts Reading
- 8 Genre and Hollywood
- 9 The star system and Hollywood
- 10 Hollywood film and society, Douglas Kellner Reading: Hollywood and ideology
- 11 Film policy: Hollywood and beyond
- 12 Hollywood and the world
- Part 3 World Cinema: Critical Approaches
- 1 Redefining cinema: international and avant-garde alternatives
- 1 Concepts of national cinema
- 2 Modernism and the avant-gardes
- 3 Realism modernism and post-colonial theory, Ashish Rajadhyaksha Redefining cinema: other genres
- 4 The documentary
- 5 The animated film
- 6 Issues in European cinema
- 1 Case-studies: Movements Moments and Filmmakers
- 7 The avant-gardes and European cinema before 1930
- 8 Italian post-war cinema and Neo-Realism
- 9 The French
- 10 New German Cinema
- 11 East Central European cinema