Visible Fictions

Cinema: Television: Video
2. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-138-83504-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 523 g

This revised edition of a standard textbook combines an examination of the cinema and television industries with a detailed analysis of their aesthetic and semiotic characteristics. John Ellis draws on his experience as an independent television producer to provide a comprehensive and challenging overview of the place of film, television and video in our daily lives and their future prospects in a changing media landscape.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ellis, John

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Preliminaries Part I Cinema 2 Cinema as a cultural event 3 Cinema as image and sound 4 Cinema narration 5 The cinema spectator 6 Stars as cinematic phenomenon Part II Broadcast TV 7 Broadcast TV as cultural form 8 Broadcast TV as sound and image 9 Broadcast TV narration 10 The broadcast TV viewer Part III The institutions of cinema and broadcast TV 11 The current situation 12 The organisation of film production 13 The dominance of the Hollywood film 14 The organisation of broadcast TV production 15 Cinema and broadcast TV together 16 Beyond the Hollywood film: British independent cinema 17 Postface (1992)

Über Autor(innen)

Now an independent TV producer, John Ellis has been a lecturer in film studies, an editor of and contributor to Screen magazine, and also co-wrote Language and Materialism (RKP 1978).