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Film: The Key Concepts presents a coherent, clear and exciting overview of film theory for beginning readers. The book takes the reader through the often conflicting analyses that make up film theory, illustrating arguments with examples from mainstream and independent films.
Concise and comprehensive, the book guides the reader through realism, formalism, structuralism, semiotics, Marxism, psychoanalysis, feminism, cognitivism, post-colonialism, postmodernism, gender and queer film theory, stardom and film audience research. The book as a whole provides a complete overview of the evolution of film theory.
Throughout, the analysis is illustrated with lively boxed studies of key mainstream and independent films. Bulleted chapter summaries, questions and guides to further reading are also provided.
Table of Contents
1. From the Photogenic to the Simulacrum
2. Film Constructs
3. Dialectic Film Montage
4. Imaginary Signifiers/Voyeuristic Pleasures
Questions for Discussion
Guide to Further Reading
Notes
Index
Product details
| Published | 18 Jul 2022 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 192 |
| ISBN | 9789393715555 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic India |
| Illustrations | 10 b&w illus |
| Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
| Series | The Key Concepts |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing India Pvt. Ltd |
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