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Print Price: $94.99

Format:
Paperback
248 pp.
25 black and white halftones, 189 mm x 246 mm

ISBN-13:
9780198742807

Publication date:
February 2000

Imprint: OUP UK

Film Studies

Critical Approaches

Edited by John Hill and Pamela Church Gibson
Advisory Board: Richard Dyer, E. Ann Kaplan and Paul Willemen

'The contributors supply skilful overviews of the major critical approaches' Sight and Sound, May 1998

covers all the significant theories, debates and approaches to the subject

chapter authors are international experts

emphasis throughout on critical concepts, methods and debates

includes material from important new fields such as film audiences and reception, queer theory, film and psychoanalysis, and poststructuralist approaches

contains learning aids such as chapter summaries, critiques of individual films, and lists of further reading

This text is the most up-to-date critical guide to the study of film. It is an ideal course companion for undergraduates taking courses in film criticism and textual analysis, and for students taking course options in gender, race and sexuality in film.

Readership : Core market is undergraduates studying film, media studies and cultural studies. This text is especially useful to 2nd and 3rd students taking courses in theoretical developments in film criticism, and also for options in gender, race and sexuality. It would also be useful to first year students taking introductory courses in film criticism and textual analysis.

Reviews

'...these volumes promise something more directed. ...Film Studies is a decent introduction to the subject.' Sight and Sound August 2000 (Page 32 Film criticism)
'...there is a strong sense of the general evolution away from total theory to a more pluralist position across the whole field...providing clear signposts to further reading.' THES May 2000

John Hill: Introduction
PART ONE. CRITICAL APPROACHES
1. Richard Dyer: Introduction to Film Studies
STUDYING THE FILM TEXT
2. Robert Phillip Kolker: The Film Text and Film Form
Readings:
Robin Wood: Written on the Wind
Peter Wollen: Citizen Kane
3. Paul McDonald: Film Acting
4. Pamela Church Gibson: Film Costume
5. Claudia Gorbman: Film Music
THE FILM TEXT: THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENTS
6. Anthony Easthope: Classic Film Theory and Semiotics
7. Ian Christie: Formalism and Neo-formalism
Victor Schlovsky: Reading: `Poetry and Prose in Cinema'
8. Robert B. Ray: Impressionism, Surrealism, and Film Theory
9. Barbara Creed: Film and Psychoanalysis
10. Peter Brunette: Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction
11. John Hill: Film and Postmodernism
FILM TEXT AND CONTEXT: GENDER, IDEOLOGY, AND IDENTITIES
12. Chuck Kleinhans: Marxism and Film
John Hill: Reading: `The Political Thriller Debate'
13. Patricia White: Feminism and Film
Readings:
Mary Anne Doane: Rebecca
Tania Modleski: Rebecca
14. Anneke Smelik: Gay and Lesbian Criticism
15. Alexander Doty: Queer Theory
16. Laura Kipnis: Pornography
17. Robyn Wiegman: Race, Ethnicity, and Film
18. Rey Chow: Film and Cultural Identity
FILM TEXT AND CONTEXT: CULTURE, HISTORY, AND RECEPTION
19. Dudley Andrew: Film and History
20. Andrew Tudor: Sociology and Film
21. Graeme Turner: Cultural Studies and Film
22. Jostein Gripsrud: Film Audiences
23. Noel King: Hermeneutics, Reception Aesthetics, and Film Interpretation

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EDITORS

John Hill is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Media and Performance Studies at the University of Ulster at Coleraine

Pamela Church Gibson is a Senior Lecturer in Contextual and Cultural Studies at the London College of Fashion, a constituent college of the London Institute

ADVISORY BOARD

Richard Dyer is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Warwick

E. Ann Kaplan teaches in the Department of English at the Humanities Institute at Stony Brook, New York

Paul Willemen is Professor, Department of Media Studies, Napier University, Edinburgh

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