Graeme Turner

Film as Social Practice

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Produktbeschreibung

This fourth edition of our bestselling text has been comprehensively updated and revised to include contemporary film analysis and recent films. With a focus on contemporary popular cinema and examples from Classical Hollywood, Graeme Turner examines the social and cultural aspects of film from audiences and ideologies to exhibition and technology. This fourth edition now includes: new sections dealing with debates about spectacle and special effects an extended treatment of sound and its contribution to cinema film theorya (TM)s discussion of the representation of race and ethnicity a thorough update of individual film references a revised applications chapter that includes new contemporary examples new illustrations from contemporary popular cinema. Students of film studies, film practice and film theory will find this a welcome addition to their degree course studies.

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Fully revised and updated to bring it in line with contemporary film analysis and new material published, this new edition now includes revised chapters, new illustrations, film theories and an expanded treatment of special effects and spectacle.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• 4th edition
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 147mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9780415375139
• ISBN-10: 0415375134
• Artikelnr.: 22561336

Autorenporträt

Graeme Turner is Professor of Cultural Studies and Director of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. He has published many books on media and cultural studies including British Cultural Studies: An Introduction, Understanding Celebrity and The Film Cultures Reader.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements General Editor's Preface Preface
Introduction 1. The Feature Film Industry The Feature Film Today The
Establishment of the Feature Film American Domination of the Feature Film
Industry New Competitors, New Strategies, New Hollywood Spectacle Versus
Narrative Suggestions for Further Work 2. From Seventh Art to Social
Practice: A History of Film Studies Early Aesthetic Approaches Realist
Approaches Bazin Auteurs and Genres The Institutionalization of Film
Studies Film as Social Practice Suggestions for Further Work 3. Film
Languages Culture and Language Film as a Signifying Practice The Signifying
Systems Reading the Film Suggestions for Further Work 4. Film Narrative
The Universality of Story The Function of Narrative Structuralism and
Narrative Codes and Conventions Genre Narrative and Narration Suggestions
for Further Work 5. Film Audiences Specifying the Audience Stars The Film
Experience The Film Spectator and Psychoanalysis Audience Identification
Desire and the Image Audiences, Texts and Meanings Cultural Identities
Suggestions for Further Work 6. Film, Culture and Ideology Film and
National Culture A National Cinema: the Australian Revival Ideology in the
Text Issues in Ideological Analysis Suggestions for Further Work 7.
Applications Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Desperately Seeking Susan
Conclusion References Index