| Description |
xiv, 188 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Studies in culture & communication |
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Studies in culture & communication.
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| Contents |
1. The feature film industry. The feature film today. The establishment of the feature film. American domination of the feature film industry. New competitors, new strategies -- 2. From seventh art to social practice - a history of film studies. Early aesthetic approaches. Realist approaches. Bazin. Auteurs and genres. The institutionalization of film studies. Film as social practice -- 3. Film languages. Culture and language. Film as a signifying practice. The signifying systems. Reading the film -- 4. Film narrative. The universality of story. The function of narrative. Structuralism and narrative. Codes and conventions. Genre. Structuralism, genre, and the western -- 5. Film audiences. Specifying the audience. Stars. The film experience. The film spectator and psychoanalysis. Audience identification. Desire and the image. Audiences, texts, and meanings -- 6. Film, culture, and ideology. Film and national culture. A national cinema: the Australian revival. Ideology in the text. Issues in ideological analysis -- 7. Applications. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Desperately Seeking Susan |
| Summary |
This new edition of a classic student textbook explores the feature film as entertainment, as narrative and as cultural event. Graeme Turner discusses the major theoretical issues surrounding the history of film production and film studies, using them to examine the cultural function of film and its place in our popular culture rather than its status as the 'seventh art'. Turner considers issues of film institutions and their place in national political culture and the relevance of cultural theory, from the UK, the US, and Australia, in explaining the social practice of making, watching and talking about feature films. This new edition incorporates analysis of classic and popular contemporary films, now including Batman, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and Home Alone, with a selection of brand new film stills; new theoretical material, with particular discussion of feminist theory and the female spectator; and arguments revised throughout to take into account recent developments in film and cultural theory and changing cinematic trends |
| Analysis |
Cinema Films (Motion pictures) Sociology |
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Cinema Films (Motion pictures) Sociology |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Previous ed: 1988 |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [180]-184 |
| Subject |
Communication.
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects.
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| LC no. |
93012787 |
| ISBN |
0415092728 |
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