Studying contemporary American film : a guide to movie analysis
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Studying contemporary American film : a guide to movie analysis
Bloomsbury Academic, 2012, c2002
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"First edition published in Great Britain in 2002 by Arnold"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. [294]-302) and index
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Description
How should the student set about analysing contemporary American cinema? This book takes an innovative approach to film analysis: each chapter examines the assumptions behind one traditional theory of film, distils a method of analysis from it, and then analyses a contemporary American movie. It then goes beyond the traditional theory by analysing the same movie using a more current theory and method. Traditional theories featured include mise en scene criticism, auteurism, structural analysis, narratology, studies of realism, psychoanalysis, and feminism. More current theories include new and post-Lacanian approaches to subjectivity, cognitivism, computerised statistical style analysis, the philosophy of modal logic, new media theory, and deconstruction. Films analysed include Chinatown, Die Hard, The Silence of the Lambs, Jurassic Park, The Lost World, Back to the Future, Lost Highway, plus two European imitations of American filmmaking, The English Patient and The Fifth Element. All students of film and popular culture will find this book ideal preparation for writing clear, well-structured, detailed analysis of their favourite American movies.
Table of Contents
- Film theory, methods and analysis
- classical/post-classical narrative (Die Hard)
- mise en scene criticism and statsitical style analysis (The English Patient)
- from thematic criticism to deconstructive analysis (Chinatown)
- S/Z, the "readerly" film, and video game logic (The Fifth Element)
- cognitive theories of narration (Lost Highway)
- realism in the photographic and digital image (Jurassic Park and The Lost World)
- Oedipal narratives and post-Oedipal (Back to the Future)
- feminism, Foucault and Deleuze (The Silence of the Lambs)
- conclusion.
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