Thinking about movies : watching, questioning, enjoying
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Thinking about movies : watching, questioning, enjoying
Blackwell, [c2003]
2nd ed.
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Thinking about movies
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Includes index
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: hardcover ISBN 9780631233572
Description
Thinking About Movies, 2nd 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. Guiding readers through basic film concepts - narrative structure, authorship, genre, actors, and stars - as well as more complex analyses of race, class, gender, film theory, audience, and reception, Thinking About Movies offers an intelligent and lively introduction to the ways in which movies are constructed, achieve their effect, and convey their powerful messages. This second edition has been fully revised and updated to cover new developments in filmmaking and recent movie releases. Including extensive illustrations and discussions of a diverse selection of important films, from Citizen Kane to The Sixth Sense, this is the ideal textbook to get students thinking about this important cultural medium. Thinking About Movies, 2nd edition is accompanied by a website at http: //www .blackwellpublishing.com/lehman featuring resources for both academics and students.
Table of Contents
PrefaceAcknowledgments1. Introduction: Fatal Attraction and Scarface2. Narrative Structure: Jurassic Park and Rashomon3. Formal Analysis: Rules Of The Game and The Sixth Sense4. Authorship: The Searchers and Jungle Fever5. Genres: Murder, My Sweet and Gunfight at the OK Corral6. Series, Sequels, and Remakes: Goldfinger and Psycho 1960 and 19987. Actors and Stars: Morocco and Dirty Harry8. Audiences and Reception: A Woman Of Paris and The Crying Game9. Film and the Other Arts: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Nosferatu10. Film and its Relation to Radio and Television: Richard Diamond: Private Detective, Peter Gunn, and Victor/Victoria11. Realism and Theories Of Film: Potemkin and Umberto D12. Gender and Sexuality: The Silence of the Lambs and American Gigolo13. Race: Out Of The Past, LA Confidential, and Boyz N The Hood)14. Class: Pretty Woman and The People Under the Stairs15. Citizen Kane: An Analysis: Citizen Kane16. Digital Technology and Film: The Matrix and TimecodeGlossaryIndex
- Volume
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: pbk ISBN 9780631233589
Description
Thinking About Movies, 2nd 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. Guiding readers through basic film concepts - narrative structure, authorship, genre, actors, and stars - as well as more complex analyses of race, class, gender, film theory, audience, and reception, Thinking About Movies offers an intelligent and lively introduction to the ways in which movies are constructed, achieve their effect, and convey their powerful messages. This second edition has been fully revised and updated to cover new developments in filmmaking and recent movie releases. Including extensive illustrations and discussions of a diverse selection of important films, from Citizen Kane to The Sixth Sense, this is the ideal textbook to get students thinking about this important cultural medium. Thinking About Movies, 2nd edition is accompanied by a website at http: //www .blackwellpublishing.com/lehman featuring resources for both academics and students.
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: Murder, My Sweet and Gunfight at the OK Corral 6. Series, Sequels, and Remakes: Goldfinger and Psycho 1960 and 1998 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: 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. Digital Technology and Film: The Matrix and Timecode Glossary Index
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