Sarah Casey Benyahia, Claire Mortimer

Doing Film Studies

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Doing Film Studies examines what it really means to study film, encouraging the reader to question the dominant theories as well as understanding the key approaches to cinema. This book provides an overview of the construction of film studies - including its history and evolution - and examines the application of theories to film texts.

Produktdetails

• Doing... Series
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 196g
• ISBN-13: 9780415602709
• ISBN-10: 041560270X
• Artikelnr.: 36137631

Autorenporträt

Sarah Casey Benyahia is a teacher of Film and Media Studies. She is the author of Crime (2011), Teaching Contemporary British Cinema (2005) and co-author of several film and media studies text books. Claire Mortimer is a teacher of Media and Film Studies. She is the author of Romantic Comedy (2010) and co-author of AS Media Studies: The Essential Introduction for WJEC (2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The Canon in Practice 2. The History of the Discipline or
How it Became Possible to Study Film 3. The History of the canon: The
Development (and deconstruction) of the film studies canon 4. Key
Approaches: Genre Theory 5.Competing Approaches: Screen Theory 6.Reading a
film 7. Film Studies and Narrative Theories 8. Spectatorship and Audience
Studies 9. Creative Engagement 10. Film and Identity 11. Postmodernism and
Cultural studies 12. Film as Industry Index