Engaging cinema : an introduction to film studies
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Engaging cinema : an introduction to film studies
W.W. Norton, c2010
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 477-491) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In what ways do films influence and interact with society? What social forces determine the kinds of movies that get made? How do movies reinforce-and sometimes overturn-social norms? As societies evolve, do the films that were once considered 'great' slip into obscurity? Which ones? Why? These questions, and many others like them, represent the mainstream of scholarly film studies today. In Engaging Cinema, Bill Nichols offers the first book for introductory film students that tackles these topics head-on.
Published in a handy 'trade paperback' format, Engaging Cinema is inexpensive and utterly unique in the field-a perfect complement to or replacement for standard film texts.
Table of Contents
To the Instructor (and the curious student)
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Some Basic Issues and Concepts
PART I. THE FORMAL CONTEXT
Chapter 1. Film as a Language
Chapter 2. Forms of Cinematic Engagement and the Avant-Garde Film
Chapter 3. Documentary Film
Chapter 4. Story Telling and Narrative Fiction Film
PART II. THE SOCIAL CONTEXT FOR THE STUDY OF FILM
Chapter 5. Three Fundamental Styles: Realism, Modernism, and Postmodernism
Chapter 6. The Institutional and National Contexts: Hollywood and Beyond
Chapter 7. Genre Films
Chapter 8. Ideology and the Cinema
Chapter 9. Race and Ethnicity in Film
Chapter 10. Gender and Masculinity
Chapter 11. Feminism and Film
Part III. THE VIEWER RESPONDS: DOING RESEARCH AND RESPONDING TO FILMS
Chapter 12. Writing and Speaking about Film
FURTHER READING
GLOSSARY
INDEX
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