The Film Cultures Reader

by Turner,Graeme; Turner,Graeme

• ISBN13: 9780415252829
• ISBN10: 0415252822
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2001-12-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The Film Cultures Readerbrings together key writings on contemporary cinema, by leading authors in cinema and cultural studies, focusing on film as a social and cultural practice, and on the relationship between cinema and popular culture.The Readeris divided into six thematic sections, addressing: Understanding Film; Technology; Film Industries; Meanings and Pleasures; Identities; Audiences and Consumption. Contributors include: Tino Balio, Sabrina Barton, Tony Bennett, Jacqueline Bobo, Stella Bruzzi, Edward Buscombe, Carol Clover, Jim Collins, Tim Corrigan, Barbara Creed, Richard Dyer, Jane Feuer, Miriam Hansen, bell hooks, John Hill, Mark Jancovich, Susan Jeffords, Ros Jennings, Isaac Julien, Annette Kuhn, Tania Modleski, David Marshall, Judith Mayne, Kobena Mercer, Steve Neale, Tom O'Regan, Stephen Prince, Thomas Schatz, Ella Shohat, Gianluca Sergi, Jackie Stacey, Janet Staiger, Robert Stam, Chris Straayer, Yvonne Tasker, Stephen Teo, Justin Wyatt.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	ix
Notes on contributors	xi
Acknowledgements	xvi
Preface	xix
Editor's Introduction	1	(10)
Graeme Turner
PART ONE Understanding film
Introduction	11	(3)
Graeme Turner
Texts and Their Readings	14	(6)
Tony Bennett
Janet Woollacott
Women's Genres	20	(8)
Annette Kuhn
Paradoxes of Spectatorship	28	(18)
Judith Mayne
Reception Studies in Film and Television	46	(31)
Janet Staiger
PART TWO Technologies
Introduction	73	(4)
Graeme Turner
Sound and Colour	77	(8)
Edward Buscombe
Colour and Film Aesthetics	85	(10)
Steve Neale
Lighting for Whiteness	95	(12)
Richard Dyer
A Cry in the Dark: The Role of the Post-Classical Film Sound	107	(8)
Gianluca Sergi
True Lies: Perceptual Realism, Digital Images and Film Theory	115	(14)
Stephen Prince
The Cyberstar: Digital Pleasures and the end of the Unconscious	129	(10)
Barbara Creed
PART THREE Industries
Introduction	135	(4)
Graeme Turner
A National Cinema	139	(26)
Tom O'Regan
British Cinema as National Cinema: Production, Audience and Representation	165	(9)
John Hill
Postmodernism and the end of Hong Kong Cinema	174	(10)
Stephen Teo
The New Hollywood	184	(22)
Thomas Schatz
`A Major Presence in all the World's Important Markets': The Globalization of Hollywood in the 1990s	206	(17)
Tino Balio
PART FOUR Meanings and pleasures
Introduction	219	(4)
Graeme Turner
Monroe and Sexuality: Desirability	223	(5)
Richard Dyer
The Cinematic Apparatus and the Construction of the Film Celebrity	228	(12)
P. David Marshall
Spectators and Spectacles	240	(6)
Jane Feuer
Desire and the Costume Film: Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Age of Innocence, the Piano	246	(22)
Stella Bruzzi
The Terror of Pleasure: The Contemporary Horror Film and Postmodern Theory	268	(8)
Tania Modleski
Genericity in the Nineties: Eclectic Irony and the New Sincerity	276	(19)
Jim Collins
PART FIVE Identities
Introduction	291	(4)
Graeme Turner
Action Heroines in the 1980s: The Limits of `Musculinity'	295	(16)
Yvonne Tasker
Your Self Storage: Female Investigation and Male Performativity in the Woman's Psychothriller	311	(20)
Sabrina Barton
The Hypothetical Lesbian Heroine in Narrative Feature Film	331	(13)
Chris Straayer
Can Masculinity be Terminated?	344	(11)
Susan Jeffords
De Margin and de Centre	355	(11)
Isaac Julien
Kobena Mercer
The Imperial Imaginary	366	(16)
Ella Shohat
Robert Stam
PART SIX Audiences and consumption
Introduction	379	(3)
Graeme Turner
High Concept and Market Research: Movie Making by the Numbers	382	(8)
Justin Wyatt
Chameleon and Catalyst: The Cinema as an Alternative Public Sphere	390	(30)
Miriam Hansen
Hollywood Cinema: The Great Escape	420	(24)
Jackie Stacey
Watching the Color Purple: Two Interviews	444	(25)
Jacqueline Bobo
`A Real Shocker': Authenticity, Genre and the Struggle for Distinction	469	(12)
Mark Jancovich
References	481	(30)
Index	511