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9780415375139

Film as Social Practice

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415375139

  • ISBN10:

    0415375134

  • Edition: 4th
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-08-30
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

"This is the fourth edition of a classic student textbook which introduces film studies from a cultural studies perspective. Film as Social Practice is distinctive in that it approaches the study of film as a social and cultural practice that does not end with the text. Rather than being examined as a set of canonical texts, film is examined as entertainment, as narrative and as cultural event. The focus is upon the cultural function of film."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Graeme Turner is Professor of Cultural Studies and Director of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
xi
Acknowledgements xiii
Preface xv
Introduction 1(6)
The feature film industry
7(36)
The feature film today
8(6)
The establishment of the feature film
14(5)
American domination of the feature film industry
19(5)
New competitors, new strategies, `new Hollywood'
24(11)
Spectacle versus narrative
35(4)
Suggestions for further work
39(4)
From seventh art to social practice - a history of film studies
43(22)
Early aesthetic approaches
44(4)
Realist approaches
48(4)
Bazin
52(1)
Auteurs and genres
53(4)
The institutionalization of film studies
57(2)
Film as social practice
59(3)
Suggestions for further work
62(3)
Film languages
65(32)
Culture and language
66(6)
Film as a signifying practice
72(1)
The signifying systems
73(19)
Reading the film
92(2)
Suggestions for further work
94(3)
Film narrative
97(32)
The universality of story
98(4)
The function of narrative
102(3)
Structuralism and narrative
105(4)
Codes and conventions
109(10)
Genre
119(6)
Narrative and narration
125(2)
Suggestions for further work
127(2)
Film audiences
129(48)
Specifying the audience
134(5)
Stars
139(7)
The film experience
146(3)
The film spectator and psychoanalysis
149(2)
Audience identification
151(9)
Desire and the image
160(3)
Audiences, texts, and meanings
163(7)
Cultural identities
170(5)
Suggestions for further work
175(2)
Film, culture, and ideology
177(40)
Film and national culture
182(5)
A national cinema: the Australian revival
187(10)
Ideology in the text
197(7)
Issues in ideological analysis
204(9)
Suggestions for further work
213(4)
Applications
217(22)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
218(7)
Desperately Seeking Susan
225(11)
Conclusion
236(3)
References 239(10)
Index 249

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