Film studies : critical approaches /
edited by John Hill and Pamela Church Gibson
- Oxford : New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
- xiv, 229 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The film text and film form / Robert P. Kolker -- Film acting / Paul McDonald -- Film costume / Paula 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.
An overview of critical approaches in film studies that covers such theories as formalism, psychoanalysis, post-structuralism, Marxism, feminism, and queer theory; and provides a selection of readings that illustrate several theories' applications to particular films. This is a guide to the study of film, covering the significant theories, debates and approaches to the subject. Contributors provide an overview of the main disciplinary approaches, explaining the concepts and methods involved in film analysis.
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