The Oxford Guide to Film Studies

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

• ISBN13: 9780198711247
• ISBN10: 0198711247
• Format: Paperback
• 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 in film 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

List of Illustrations

General Introduction

Critical Approaches

Introduction to film studies

The film text and film form, Robert P. Kolker Readings: Written on the Wind

Film acting

Film costume

Film music

Classic film theory and semiotics

Formalism and neo-formalism Ian Christie Reading: Poetry and prose in cinema

Impressionism surrealism and film theory

Film and psychoanalysis

Post-structuralism and deconstruction

Film and postmodernism

Marxism and film

Feminism and film

Gay and lesbian criticism

Queer theory

Pornography

Race ethnicity and film

Film and cultural identity

Film and history

Sociology and film

Cultural studies and film

Film audiences

Hermeneutics reception aesthetics and film interpretation

American Cinema and Hollywood: Critical Approaches

American cinema: history industry and interpretation

American cinema and film history

History and cinema technology

Hollywood as industry

Early American film

Classical Hollywood film and melodrama, E. Ann Kaplan Readings: Casablanca

Post-classical Hollywood

Authorship and Hollywood, Stephen Crofts Reading

Genre and Hollywood

The star system and Hollywood

Hollywood film and society, Douglas Kellner Reading: Hollywood and ideology

Film policy: Hollywood and beyond

Hollywood and the world

World Cinema: Critical Approaches

Redefining cinema: international and avant-garde alternatives

Concepts of national cinema

Modernism and the avant-gardes

Realism modernism and post-colonial theory, Ashish Rajadhyaksha Redefining cinema: other genres

The documentary

The animated film

Issues in European cinema

Case-studies: Movements Moments and Filmmakers

The avant-gardes and European cinema before 1930

Italian post-war cinema and Neo-Realism

The French

New German Cinema

East Central European cinema

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