Film Studies

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• ISBN13: 9781904048084
• ISBN10: 1904048080
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2005-05-01
• Publisher: Pocket Essentials

Summary

Pocket Essentials is a dynamic series of books that are concise, lively, and easy to read. Packed with facts as well as expert opinions, each book has all the key information you need to know about such popular topics as film, television, cult fiction, history, and more. This book offers a concise introduction to the appreciation and study of film. It begins with the nuts and bolts, an examination of how films are put togetherframing, performance, setting, costume and editingand then examines a number of approaches taken to film over the last half century, such as the auteur theory, structuralism, psychoanalysis, feminism, queer theory, and more. Applying these theories to films everyone will have seen, such asThe Usual SuspectsandSeven,the book also includes an overview of genres, national cinemas, and film movements worldwide.

Author Biography

Andrew M Butler is Field Chair in Film Studies at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College and author of the Pocket Essentials Terry Pratchett, Philip K Dick and Cyberpunk. He is features editor of Vector and would do something interesting in his spare time if he had any

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 7
The Nuts And Bolts Of Film: Editing And Mise En Scene	p. 9
The Long Take
Camera Movements and Angles
Dialectical Montage
Continuity Editing
Setting
Lighting
Acting
Symbols and Motifs
Auteur Theories	p. 19
The Policy of Auteurs
The Auteur Theory
Auteur Structuralism and some problems
Semiotics And Structuralism	p. 26
Ferdinand De Saussure
Charles Peirce
Roland Barthes
V I Propp and Christian Metz
Psychoanalysis	p. 33
Sigmund Freud
Jacques Lacan and Laura Mulvey
Feminism	p. 41
Female
Feminine
Feminist
The Canon and the Representation of Women
Queer Theory	p. 49
The Homosexual
Homosociality and Fratriarchy
Gays and Lesbians on Film
The Buddy Movie
Camp
Stars	p. 57
Production
Consumption
Genres	p. 63
Definitions
Problems
Models and histories of Genres
National Cinema	p. 72
Definitions and Problems Discussing National Cinema
A brief look at Australian Cinema
Film Movements And Genres	p. 80
An annotated listing from Anime to the Western
References	p. 91
Bibliography
Websites
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