Thinking About Movies 3e

3. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4051-5403-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons

Buch, Englisch, 440 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 189 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 875 g

Thinking About Movies, Third Edition is a comprehensive guide for students and movie lovers who want to learn how to watch movies critically and analytically. Intended for the beginner, the text offers the critical building blocks required to understand film as an important narrative and cultural form.

* A fully revised new edition of this popular textbook that teaches readers how to watch movies critically and analytically

* Guides readers through basic approaches to film analysis such as authorship, genre, race, class, gender, film theory, audience, and reception

* Updated to include discussion of a diverse selection of classic and recent films, from Citizen Kane and Murder, My Sweet to Crash and King Kong

* Features new coverage of important current trends in the industry, and recent developments in film theory and criticism

* Accompanied by a website at www.blackwellpublishing.com/lehman featuring resources for both academics and students

Zielgruppe

first year undergraduates and above in film studies, and related disciplines including media, cultural and communication studies

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lehman, Peter

Luhr, William

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Film, Video, Foto

Inhaltsverzeichnis

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

1. Introduction.

Fatal Attraction and Scarface.

2. Narrative Structure.

Jurassic Park and Rashomon.

3. Formal Analysis.

Rules of the Game and The Sixth Sense.

4. Authorship.

The Searchers and Jungle Fever.

5. Genres.

Sin City and Gunfight at the OK Corral.

6. Series, Sequels, and Remakes.

Goldfinger and King Kong 1933 and 2005.

7. Actors and Stars.

Morocco and Dirty Harry.

8. Audiences and Reception.

A Woman of Paris and The Crying Game.

9. Film and the Other Arts.

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Nosferatu.

10. Film and its Relation to Radio and Television.

Richard Diamond: Private Detective, Peter Gunn, and Victor/Victoria.

11. Realism and Theories of Film.

The Battleship Potemkin and Umberto D.

12. Gender and Sexuality.

The Silence of the Lambs and American Gigolo.

13. Race.

Out of the Past, LA Confidential, and Boyz N the Hood.

14. Class.

Pretty Woman and The People Under the Stairs.

15. Citizen Kane: An Analysis.

Citizen Kane.

16. Globalization, Digitalization, Convergence: Current Trends.

The Matrix.

Glossary.

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Lehman is Director of the Center for Film, Media, and Popular Culture at Arizona State University, Tempe. He is author of Running Scared: Masculinity and the Representation of the Male Body, second edition (2007), Roy Orbison: The Invention of an Alternative Rock Masculinity (2003), and editor of Pornography: Film and Culture (2006). He is former president of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.

William Luhr is Professor of English at Saint Peter's College. Among other works, he is author of Raymond Chandler and Film, Second Edition (1991), and editor of World Cinema since 1945 (1987) and The Maltese Falcon: John Huston, Director (1995). He is Co-Chair of the Columbia University Seminar on Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation.