The Oxford Handbook of Film and Media Studies

by Kolker, Robert P.

• ISBN13: 9780197614815
• ISBN10: 0197614817
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2021-12-07
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Comprised of twenty chapters by leading scholars and industry professionals, The Oxford Handbook of Film and Media Studies yields fresh perspectives on film and media in the U.S., Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East. This wide-ranging compendium surveys such topics as the changing concept of "realism" in film, the European political documentary, genre theory, and more. Also exploring developments in media studies, this Handbook features chapters that thoroughly examine topics as diverse as copyright, globalization, television programming, video game genres, the ideologies of media, and movie-going in India. Comprehensive and in-depth, The Oxford Handbook of Film and Media Studies combines cutting-edge scholarship on cinema and media in their many forms to present an authoritative assessment of developments in the U.S. and abroad.

Author Biography

Robert P. Kolker, Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland, taught cinema studies for almost 50 years. He is author of A Cinema of Loneliness; The Extraordinary Image: Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick and the Reimagining of Cinema; Triumph over Containment: American Film in the
1950s; and Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making his Final Film (with Nathan Abrams) and editor of 2001: A Space Odyssey: New Essays.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Jay David Bolter, Digital Media and the Future of Filmic Narrative

2. Brian Price, The Last Laoco:on

3. Devin Orgeron, Visual Media and the Tyranny of the Real

4. Francis Guerin, Radical Aspirations Historicized: The European Commitment to Political Documentary

5. Jeannene M. Przyblyski, Loss of Light: The Long Shadow of Photography in the Digital Age

6. Marsha Orgeron, Media Celebrity in the Age of the Image

7. Paul Young, Film Genre Theory and Contemporary Media: Description, Interpretation, Intermediality

8. Toby Miller and Mariana Johnson, The Who, What, When, Where, And How-Gilda Says Textual Analysis
Needs To Learn From Political Economy And Ethnography

9. William Uricchio, Television's First 75 Years: The Interpretive Flexibility Of A Medium In Transition

10. Tara McPherson, "The end of TV as we know it": Convergence, Anxiety, Generic Innovation, and the Case of 24

11. John Caldwell, Screen Practice and Conglomeration: How Reflexivity and Conglomeration Fuel Each Other

12. Evans Chan, The Chinese Action Image and Postmodernity

13. Joseph Schaub, When Cute Becomes Scary: The Young Female in Japanese Horror Cinema

14. Gina Marchetti, Asian Film and Digital Culture

15. Manjunath Pendakur, Popular Cinema and "New" Media in India

16. Cristina Venegas, Dreaming With Open Eyes: Latin American Media in the Digital Age

17. Andrew Flibbert, The Globalization of Filmmaking in Latin America and the Middle East

18. David Golumbia, Computers and Cultural Studies

19. Warren Buckland, Film and Media Studies Pedagogy

20. Peter Jaszi, Copyright, Fair Use, and Motion Pictures

Appendix I. Tom Bernard, Evolution of Modern Day Independent Film Making

Appendix II. Lee Berger & Richard Hollander, The Digital Revolution