Beginning Film Studies
by Dix, AndrewFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2008-04-01
Publisher(s): Manchester University Press
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Summary
Beginning Film Studiesoffers the most lucid, thorough and up-to-the-minute introduction to this popular subject. Written with verve and wit, it reviews a wealth of significant trends in the discipline's past and present, and looks ahead to new directions for film studies. The discussions are enlivened by references to film cultures as diverse as "classical" Hollywood, the French "New Wave" and India, to stars like Johnny Depp, genres such as noir, romance and action, as well as more "geographical" turns such as production and consumption. Comprehensive and entertaining, it is sure to take its place alongside the popular and bestselling titles already published in this series.
Author Biography
Andrew Dix is Lecturer in American Studies at Loughborough University.
Table of Contents
| List of figures | |
| Acknowledgements | |
| Introduction: what is film studies? | |
| From magic lanterns to videogames | |
| About this book | |
| Seeing film: mise-en-scène analysis | |
| Defining mise-en-scène | |
| Pro-filmic elements of mise-en-scène | |
| Cinematography | |
| Colour and its meanings | |
| Analysing mise-en-scène: In the Mood for Love | |
| Selected reading | |
| Useful websites | |
| Film editing: theories and histories | |
| Beyond the shot | |
| Principles and practices of continuity editing | |
| Continuity editing and its discontents | |
| Montage(s) | |
| Meanings of the jump cut | |
| Analysing editing: Strike and Matewan | |
| Selected reading | |
| Useful websites | |
| Hearing film: analysing soundtracks | |
| Deafening silents | |
| Sound and fury | |
| Terminologies of sound analysis | |
| Music for films | |
| Analysing soundtrack: Le Mépris | |
| Selected reading | |
| Useful websites | |
| Film and narrative | |
| Russian Formalists at the cinema | |
| Time and motion pictures | |
| The sense of an ending | |
| Narrative and power | |
| Analysing narrative: 21 Grams | |
| Selected reading | |
| Useful websites | |
| Film and authorship | |
| Auteur studies: Cahiers du cinéma and other journals | |
| The problems of auteurism | |
| The rebirth of the author | |
| Digital auteurs | |
| Analysing authorship: David Lynch | |
| Selected reading | |
| Useful websites | |
| Film and genre | |
| Taxonomies of film genre | |
| Threads, prisms, maps | |
| Generic communities; or, the strange case of the cycling film | |
| Genres and history | |
| The end of genre? | |
| Analysing genre: the high school movie | |
| Selected reading | |
| Useful websites | |
| Star Studies | |
| Political economies of film stardom | |
| Making and meaning of star personas | |
| Seeing stars | |
| National and transnational stars | |
| Tiger, not James, Woods | |
| Analysing stars: Johnny Depp | |
| Selected reading | |
| Useful websites | |
| Film and ideology | |
| Class struggle --and the struggle for class -- in film studies | |
| A very short history of gender in film studies | |
| Queering cinema | |
| Unthinking racism in film studies | |
| Analysing ideology: Far From Heaven | |
| Selected reading | |
| Useful websites | |
| Film production | |
| Hollywood | |
| Beyond Hollywood: two examples | |
| National and transnational film | |
| Analysing production: In This World | |
| Selected reading | |
| Useful websites | |
| Film consumption | |
| Places and experiences | |
| Cinema before cinemas | |
| Spaces of cinemagoing | |
| Home lookin | |
| Analysing consumption: Metro Cinema, Derby | |
| Selected reading | |
| Useful websites | |
| Conclusion: film studies in the digital age | |
| Selected reading | |
| Useful websites | |
| Further reading | |
| Online resources | |
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