The Oxford Guide to Film Studies

by Hill, John; Gibson, Pamela Church; Dyer, Richard; Kaplan, E. Ann; Willemen, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780198711155
• ISBN10: 0198711158
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-03-19
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date, The Oxford Guide to Film Studies is an indispensable guide to the study of film. Top international contributors provide an overview of the main disciplinary approaches to film studies, an explanation of the core concepts and methods involved infilm analysis, a survey of the major issues and debates in the study of film, and critical discussion of key areas. Uniquely comprehensive, this book is suitable for any course on cinema or film studies.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	xi	(5)
List of Illustrations	xvi	(3)
General Introduction	xix
John Hill
PART 1 CRITICAL APPROACHES	1	(224)
1 Introduction to film studies	3	(8)
Richard Dyer
Studying the film text	11	(40)
2 The film text and film form	11	(19)
Robert P. Kolker
READING: Written on the Wind	24	(2)
Robin Wood
READING	26	(4)
Citizen Kane
Peter Wollen
3 Film acting	30	(6)
Paul McDonald
4 Film costume	36	(7)
Pamela Church Gibson
5 Film music	43	(8)
Claudia Gorbman
The film text: theoretical frameworks	51	(55)
6 Classic film theory and semiotics	51	(7)
Antony Easthope
7 Formalism and neo-formalism	58	(9)
Ian Christie
READING: Poetry and prose in cinema	65	(2)
Viktor Shklovsky
8 Impressionism, surrealism, and film theory	67	(10)
Robert B. Ray
9 Film and psychoanalysis	77	(14)
Barbara Creed
10 Post-structuralism and deconstruction	91	(5)
Peter Brunette
11 Film and postmodernism	96	(10)
John Hill
Film text and context: gender, ideology, and identities	106	(70)
12 Marxism and film	106	(11)
Chuck Kleinhans
READING: The political thriller debate	114	(3)
John Hill
13 Feminism and film	117	(18)
Patricia White
READINGS: Rebecca	132	(1)
Mary Ann Doane
Rebecca	133	(2)
Tania Modleski
14 Gay and lesbian criticism	135	(13)
Anneke Smelik
15 Queer theory	148	(5)
Alexander Doty
16 Pornography	153	(5)
Laura Kipnis
17 Race, ethnicity, and film	158	(11)
Robyn Wiegman
18 Film and cultural identity	169	(7)
Rey Chow
Film text and context: culture, history, and reception	176	(49)
19 Film and history	176	(14)
Dudley Andrew
20 Sociology and film	190	(5)
Andrew Tudor
21 Cultural studies and film	195	(7)
Graeme Turner
22 Film audiences	202	(10)
Jostein Gripsrud
23 Hermeneutics, reception aesthetics, and film interpretation	212	(13)
Noel King
PART 2 AMERICAN CINEMA AND HOLLYWOOD: CRITICAL APPROACHES	225	(158)
American cinema: history, industry, and interpretation	227	(83)
1 American cinema and film history	227	(11)
John Belton
2 History and cinema technology	238	(7)
Duncan Petrie
3 Hollywood as industry	245	(10)
Douglas Gomery
4 Early American film	255	(17)
Tom Gunning
5 Classical Hollywood film and melodrama	272	(17)
E. Ann Kaplan
READINGS: Casablanca	283	(4)
Richard Maltby
Casablanca	287	(2)
Rick Altman
6 Post-classical Hollywood	289	(21)
Peter Kramer
Critical concepts	310	(44)
7 Authorship and Hollywood	310	(17)
Stephen Crofts
READING: John Ford	325	(2)
Peter Wollen
8 Genre and Hollywood	327	(15)
Tom Ryall
READING: Body Genres	339	(3)
Linda Williams
9 The star system and Hollywood	342	(12)
Jeremy G. Butler
Politics and society	354	(29)
10 Hollywood film and society	354	(11)
Douglas Kellner
READING: Hollywood and ideology	363	(2)
Robert B. Ray
11 Film policy: Hollywood and beyond	365	(6)
Albert Moran
12 Hollywood and the world	371	(12)
Toby Miller
PART 3 WORLD CINEMA: CRITICAL APPROACHES	383	(229)
Redefining cinema: international and avant-garde alternatives	385	(41)
1 Concepts of national cinema	385	(10)
Stephen Crofts
2 Modernism and the avant-gardes	395	(18)
Murray Smith
3 Realism, modernism, and post-colonial theory	413	(13)
Ashish Rajadhyaksha
Redefining cinema: other genres	426	(14)
4 The documentary	426	(8)
John Izod
Richard Kilborn
5 The animated film	434	(6)
Michael O'Pray
European cinema	440	(61)
6 Issues in European cinema	440	(9)
Ginette Vincendeau
CASE-STUDIES: MOVEMENTS, MOMENTS, AND FILMMAKERS	449	(52)
7 The avant-gardes and European cinema before 1930	449	(6)
Ian Christie
8 Italian post-war cinema and Neo-Realism	455	(6)
Simona Monticelli
9 The French Nouvelle Vague	461	(5)
Jill Forbes
10 New German Cinema	466	(5)
Ulrike Sieglohr
11 East Central European cinema	471	(7)
Daniel J. Goulding
12 European film policy and the response to Hollywood	478	(8)
Armand Mattelart
13 Directors and stars	486	(15)
(a) Jean Renoir	486	(2)
Keith Reader
(b) Ingmar Bergman	488	(1)
Chris Darke
(c) Chantal Akerman	489	(2)
Cathy Fowler
(d) Pedro Almodovar	491	(3)
Jose Arroyo
(e) Luc Besson	494	(2)
Susan Hayward
(f) Brigitte Bardot	496	(5)
Ginette Vincendeau
Anglophone national cinemas	501	(26)
CASE-STUDIES	501	(26)
14 British cinema	501	(9)
Andrew Higson
15 Ireland and cinema	510	(6)
Martin McLoone
16 Australian cinema	516	(7)
Elizabeth Jacka
17 Canadian cinema	523	(4)
Will Straw
World cinema	527	(68)
18 Issues in world cinema	527	(8)
Wimal Dissanayake
CASE-STUDIES: CINEMAS OF THE WORLD	535	(60)
19 Indian cinema	535	(8)
Ashish Rajadhyaksha
READING: Popular Hindi cinema	541	(2)
Rosie Thomas
20 Chinese cinema	543	(7)
Berenice Reynaud
21 Hong Kong cinema	550	(7)
(a) Discovery and pre-discovery	550	(4)
Stephen Teo
(b) China and 1997	554	(3)
N. K. Leung
22 Taiwanese New Cinema	557	(5)
Kuan-Hsing Chen
23 Japanese cinema	562	(7)
Freda Freiberg
24 African cinema	569	(9)
N. Frank Ukadike
READING: Hyenas	576	(2)
Richard Porton
25 South American cinema	578	(17)
Julianne Burton-Carvajal
Redefining cinema: film in a changing age	595	(17)
26 Film and changing technologies	595	(10)
Laura Kipnis
27 Film and television	605	(7)
John Hill
List of Picture Sources and Readings	612	(1)
Index of Selected Names and Film Titles	613