Film Studies A Reader

by Hollows, Joanne; Jancovich, Mark; Hutchings, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780340692790
• ISBN10: 0340692790
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-04-28
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Ranging from the mass culture critics to postcolonial and queer theory, this text is an introduction to the main theoretical approaches within film studies. It includes primary sources such as extracts from key critics and offers a general introduction and chapter introductions that put the extracts in historical context, explaining their contributions to the debates in film studies. Contributors include Tom Gunning, Steven Cohan, Janet Staiger, James Naremore, Jim Kitses, Carol Clover, and Jane Gaines. Joanne Hollowsteaches at Nottingham Trent University. Peter Hutchingsteaches at the University of Northumbria. Mark Jancovichteaches at the University of Nottingham.Ranging from the mass culture critics to postcolonial and queer theory, this text is an introduction to the main theoretical approaches within film studies. It includes primary sources such as extracts from key critics and offers a general introduction and chapter introductions that put the extracts in historical context, explaining their contributions to the debates in film studies. Contributors include Tom Gunning, Steven Cohan, Janet Staiger, James Naremore, Jim Kitses, Carol Clover, and Jane Gaines. Ranging from the mass culture critics to postcolonial and queer theory, this reader is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the main theoretical approaches within film studies. It provides students with an opportunity to engage with primary sources in the form of extracts from key critics while also offering a general introduction and chapter introductions that help to locate the extracts in historical contexts and explain their contributions to film study.

Author Biography

Joanne Hollows teaches at Nottingham Trent University, Peter Hutchings at the University of Northumbria, and Mark Jancovich at the University of Nottingham.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgements	xi
Section One: Political Economy and Mass Culture Theory	1	(44)
`The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception'	7	(5)
Theodor W. Adorno
Max Horkheimer
`A Theory of Mass Culture'	12	(7)
Dwight Macdonald
`Concepts of Culture: Public Policy and the Cultural Industries'	19	(4)
Nicholas Garnham
```Holy Commodity Fetish, Batman!''': The Political Economy of a Commercial Intertext	23	(10)
Eileen R. Meehan
`Hooray for Hollywood: Moving into the Twenty-First Century'	33	(12)
Janet Wasko
Section Two: Film and Authorship	45	(38)
`The Filmwright and the Audience'	53	(2)
Thorold Dickinson
`A Playwright Looks at the ``Filmwright'''	55	(3)
Howard Koch
`A Certain Tendency of the French Cinema'	58	(5)
Francois Truffaut
`Films, Directors and Critics'	63	(5)
Ian Cameron
`Notes on the Auteur Theory in 1962'	68	(3)
Andrew Sarris
`The Auteur Theory'	71	(7)
Peter Wollen
`Hawks de-wollenized'	78	(5)
Robin Wood
Section Three: Genre Criticism	83	(32)
`Authorship and Genre: Notes on the Western'	89	(6)
Jim Kitses
`Critical Method...Genre'	95	(3)
Andrew Tudor
`Extract from Genre'	98	(4)
Steve Neale
`The Woman's Film'	102	(4)
Christine Geraghty
`American Film Noir: The History of an Idea'	106	(9)
James Naremore
Section Four: Star Studies	115	(40)
`Stars as Images'	121	(3)
Richard Dyer
`Stars and ``Character'''	124	(4)
Richard Dyer
`Living Stars'	128	(6)
Richard Dyer
`Stars and the Star System: The Case of Bette Davis'	134	(5)
Maria LaPlace
`Cary Grant in the Fifties: Indiscretions of the Bachelor's Masquerade'	139	(8)
Steven Cohan
`Feminine Fascinations: Forms of Identification in Star-Audience Relations'	147	(8)
Jackie Stacey
Section Five: The Historical Poetics of Cinema	155	(34)
`The Cinema of Attractions: Early Film, Its Spectator and the Avant-Garde'	161	(5)
Tom Gunning
`The Classical Hollywood Cinema'	166	(8)
Richard Maltby
`Post-Classical Hollywood'	174	(7)
Peter Kramer
`Taboos and Totems: Cultural Meanings of The Silence of the Lambs'	181	(8)
Janet Staiger
Section Six: Screen Theory I: From Marxism to Psychoanalysis	189	(38)
`Cinema/Ideology/Criticism'	197	(4)
Jean-Luc Comolli
Paul Narboni
`Realism and the Cinema: Notes on Some Brechtian Theses'	201	(5)
Colin MacCabe
`Narrative and Realism'	206	(7)
John Hill
`The Imaginary Signifier'	213	(6)
Christian Metz
`The Tutor-Code of Classical Cinema'	219	(8)
Daniel Dayan
Section Seven: Screen Theory II: Psychoanalysis, Feminism and Film	227	(38)
`The Place of Woman in the Cinema of Raoul Walsh'	233	(5)
Pam Cook
Claire Johnston
`Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema'	238	(10)
Laura Mulvey
`Film and the Masquerade: Theorizing the Female Spectator	248	(8)
Mary Ann Doane
`Her Body, Himself'	256	(9)
Carol J. Clover
Section Eight: Cultural Studies	265	(44)
`Gramsci Goes to Hollwood'	271	(3)
Iain Chambers
`Texts, Readers, Subjects'	274	(8)
David Morley
`Technology and Tradition: Audio-Visual Culture among South Asian Families in West London'	282	(7)
Marie Gillespie
`Post-Feminism and Shopping Films'	289	(10)
Charlotte Brunsdon
`Film History Terminable and Interminable: Recovering the Past in Reception Studies'	299	(10)
Barbara Klinger
Section Nine: Theorizing Differences	309	(48)
`Colonialism, Racism and Representation': An Introduction	315	(7)
Robert Stam
Louise Spence
`White Privilege and Looking Relations: Race and Gender in Feminist Film Theory'	322	(7)
Jane Gaines
`Feminism, ``The Boyz'' and Other Matters Regarding the Male'	329	(8)
Robyn Wiegman
`There's Something Queer Here'	337	(10)
Alexander Doty
`On Not Being Lady Macbeth: Some (Troubled) Thoughts on Lesbian Spectatorship'	347	(10)
Tamsin Wilton
Index	357