| Description |
xv, 350 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Series |
Beginnings |
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Beginnings (Manchester, England)
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| Contents |
Introduction: what is film studies? -- From magic lanterns to videogames -- 1. Seeing film: mise-en-scene analysis -- Defining mise-en-scene -- Pro-filmic elements of mise-en-scene -- Setting -- Props -- Costume -- Lighting -- Acting -- Stop and think -- Cinematography -- Distance -- Height, angle and level -- Masking -- Movement -- Focus -- Stop and think -- Colour and its meanings -- Analysing mise-en-scene: In the Mood for Love -- Useful websites -- 2. Film editing: theories and histories -- Beyond the shot -- Principles and practices of continuity editing -- Stop and think -- Continuity editing and its discontents -- Montage(s) -- Meanings of the jump cut -- Stop and think -- Analysing editing: Strike and Matewan -- Useful websites -- 3. Hearing film: analysing soundtrack -- Deafening silents -- Sound and fury -- Terminologies of sound analysis -- Music for films -- Stop and think -- Analysing soundtrack: Le Mepris -- Useful websites -- 4. Film and narrative -- Russian Formalists at the cinema -- Stop and think -- Time and motion pictures -- Stop and think -- The sense of an ending -- Stop and think -- Narrative and power -- Analysing narrative: 21 Grams -- Useful websites -- 5. Film and authorship -- Auteur studies: Cahiers du cinema and other journals -- Stop and think -- The problems of auteurism -- Playing parlour games -- The collaborative art of film -- The death of the author -- Author and genre -- Stop and think -- The rebirth of the author -- Analytic philosophy -- Feminism -- Legal studies -- Digital auteurs -- Analysing authorship: David Lynch -- Useful websites -- 6. Film and genre -- Taxonomies of film genre -- Stop and think -- Threads, prisms, maps -- Generic communities, or the strange case of the cycling film -- Stop and think -- Genres and history -- Stop and think -- The end of genre? -- Analysing genre: the high school movie -- Useful websites -- 7. Star studies -- Political economies of film stardom -- The making and meaning of star personas -- Stop and think -- Seeing stars -- Stop and think -- National and transnational stars -- Tiger, not James, Woods -- Analysing stars: Johnny Depp -- Useful websites -- 8. Film and ideology -- Class struggle - and the struggle for class - in film studies -- Stop and think -- A very short history of gender in film studies -- 'Down with sexism, up with women!' -- Theories of the spectatrix -- The trials of psychoanalytic feminism -- From man to masculinities -- Stop and think -- Queering cinema -- Stop and think -- Unthinking racism in film studies -- Stop and think -- Analysing ideology: Far From Heaven -- Useful websites -- 9. Film production -- Hollywood -- 'Classical' Hollywood -- 'Post-classical' Hollywood -- Stop and think -- Beyond Hollywood: two examples -- Bollywood -- Hong Kong -- Stop and think -- National and transnational film -- Analysing production: In This World -- Useful websites -- 10. Film consumption -- Places and experiences -- Cinema before cinemas -- Spaces of cinemagoing -- 'Optical fairylands' -- 'Gated communities' -- Stop and think -- Home looking -- Stop and think -- Analysing consumption: Metro Cinema, Derby -- Useful websites -- Conclusion: film studies in the digital age -- Useful websites |
| Summary |
Introduction: what is film studies? -- Ch. 1 Seeing film: mise-en-scene analysis -- Ch.2 Film editing: theoris and histories -- Ch. 3 Hearing film: analysing soundtrack -- Ch. 4 Film and naraative -- Ch. 5 Fim and authorship -- Ch. 6 Film and genre -- Ch. 7 Star studies -- Ch. 8 Film and ideology -- Ch. 9 Film production -- Ch. 10 Film consumption |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [334]-339) and index |
| Subject |
Film criticism.
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Motion pictures.
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| LC no. |
2008298769 |
| ISBN |
0719072549 (hbk.) |
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0719072557 (paperback) |
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9780719072543 (hbk.) |
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9780719072550 (paperback) |
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