The Oxford Guide to Film Studies
by Hill, John; Gibson, Pamela Church; Dyer, Richard; Kaplan, E. Ann; Willemen, PaulFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1998-03-19
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary
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.
Table of Contents
| List of Contributors | |
| List of Illustrations | |
| General Introduction | |
| Critical Approaches | |
| Introduction to film studies | |
| The film text and film form, Robert P. Kolker Readings: Written on the Wind | |
| Film acting | |
| Film costume | |
| Film music | |
| Classic film theory and semiotics | |
| Formalism and neo-formalism Ian Christie Reading: Poetry and prose in cinema | |
| Impressionism surrealism and film theory | |
| Film and psychoanalysis | |
| Post-structuralism and deconstruction | |
| Film and postmodernism | |
| Marxism and film | |
| Feminism and film | |
| Gay and lesbian criticism | |
| Queer theory | |
| Pornography | |
| Race ethnicity and film | |
| Film and cultural identity | |
| Film and history | |
| Sociology and film | |
| Cultural studies and film | |
| Film audiences | |
| Hermeneutics reception aesthetics and film interpretation | |
| American Cinema and Hollywood: Critical Approaches | |
| American cinema: history industry and interpretation | |
| American cinema and film history | |
| History and cinema technology | |
| Hollywood as industry | |
| Early American film | |
| Classical Hollywood film and melodrama, E. Ann Kaplan Readings: Casablanca | |
| Post-classical Hollywood | |
| Authorship and Hollywood, Stephen Crofts Reading | |
| Genre and Hollywood | |
| The star system and Hollywood | |
| Hollywood film and society, Douglas Kellner Reading: Hollywood and ideology | |
| Film policy: Hollywood and beyond | |
| Hollywood and the world | |
| World Cinema: Critical Approaches | |
| Redefining cinema: international and avant-garde alternatives | |
| Concepts of national cinema | |
| Modernism and the avant-gardes | |
| Realism modernism and post-colonial theory, Ashish Rajadhyaksha Redefining cinema: other genres | |
| The documentary | |
| The animated film | |
| Issues in European cinema | |
| Case-studies: Movements Moments and Filmmakers | |
| The avant-gardes and European cinema before 1930 | |
| Italian post-war cinema and Neo-Realism | |
| The French | |
| New German Cinema | |
| East Central European cinema | |
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