Reinventing film studies
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Reinventing film studies
Arnold, 2000
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Includes bibliographies and index
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ISBN 9780340677223
Description
This volume asks "where is film studies now?". It once enjoyed intellectual prestige by exploiting powerful concepts drawn from psychoanalysis and poststructuralism in the service of textual criticism. In the process cinema was established as an autonomous art and a textual discipline. In modern times however, both the medium and intellectual terrain have changed. Films are more likely to be delivered to their consumers via video and television, as likely to be generated by computer graphics as celluloid. Film production intersects with the music, toy and computer games industries. Media and cultural studies have evolved, spreading a broader net than the old film studies, investigating the intertwining of economy, politics, social structures, cultural practices and identities with media institutions. In this book noted film scholars reflect from the perspective of their own area of expertise on the position of film studies in this changing environment. They examine key issues, assess the impact on the discipline of these developments, challenge recieved thinking, and reinvent film studies for the post-film era.
Table of Contents
- Part 1: Really useful theory
- from aesthetics to semiotics and half-way back again
- why theory?
- film theory and the revolt against master narratives
- case study - "Singin' in the Rain" - a study of interpretation
- who (and what) is it for? Part 2: Film as mass culture
- dream factory
- the publicness of cinema
- case study - the political culture of address in a "Transitional Cinema" - Indian popular cinema
- reception theory and audience research - the mystery of the vampire's kiss
- re-examining stardom - questions of texts, bodies, and performances. Part 3: questions of aesthetics
- after the classic, the classical and ideology - the difference of realism
- rethinking genre
- case study - judging audiences, the case of the trial movie
- introducing film evaluation
- "Style" posture and idiom - Tarantino's figures of masculinity. Part 4: The return to history
- what is film history?
- "Animated Pictures" - tales of cinema's forgotten future, after one hundred years of film
- the mass production of the senses - classical cinema as cenacular modernism
- case study - discipline and fun - psycho and postmodern cinema. Part 5: Cinema in the age of global multi-media
- film theory and spectatorship in the age of the "posts"
- case study - digging an old well - the labour of social fantasy in a contemporary Chinese film
- facing up to Hollywood
- the end of cinema - multi-media and technological change.
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: pbk ISBN 9780340677230
Description
Reinventing Film Studies offers a comprehensive introduction to film studies in a changing environment. Written by a team of noted film scholars, it surveys the key issues for students today, assessing the impact on the discipline of recent technological, cultural and social developments, challenging received thinking, and reinventing film studies for the post-film era.
Table of Contents
- Part 1: Really useful theory
- from aesthetics to semiotics and half-way back again
- why theory?
- film theory and the revolt against master narratives
- case study - "Singin' in the Rain" - a study of interpretation
- who (and what) is it for? Part 2: Film as mass culture
- dream factory
- the publicness of cinema
- case study - the political culture of address in a "Transitional Cinema" - Indian popular cinema
- reception theory and audience research - the mystery of the vampire's kiss
- re-examining stardom - questions of texts, bodies, and performances. Part 3: questions of aesthetics
- after the classic, the classical and ideology - the difference of realism
- rethinking genre
- case study - judging audiences, the case of the trial movie
- introducing film evaluation
- "Style" posture and idiom - Tarantino's figures of masculinity. Part 4: The return to history
- what is film history?
- "Animated Pictures" - tales of cinema's forgotten future, after one hundred years of film
- the mass production of the senses - classical cinema as cenacular modernism
- case study - discipline and fun - psycho and postmodern cinema. Part 5: Cinema in the age of global multi-media
- film theory and spectatorship in the age of the "posts"
- case study - digging an old well - the labour of social fantasy in a contemporary Chinese film
- facing up to Hollywood
- the end of cinema - multi-media and technological change.
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