The second edition of this accessible book continues to examine how we can extract a broad range of meanings from the films we watch. With an improved structure, better pedagogy and more examples from popular film, this new edition continues to give students of film the vocabulary, context and critical tools they need for serious film study.
Preface
PART I: FILM CONTEXTS: MAKING, WATCHING AND STUDYING MOVIES
Introduction to the Film Experience
Preparing Viewers and Views: Distribution, Production, Promotion, and Exhibition
PART II : COMPOSITIONS: FILM SCENES, SHOTS, CUTS AND SOUNDS
Exploring a Material World: Mise-en-Scene
Seeing through the Image: Cinematography
Relating Images: Editing
Listening to the Cinema: Film Sound
PART III: ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES: FROM STORIES TO GENRES
Telling Stories about Time: Narrative Film
Representing Reality: Documentary Films
Experimental Screens: Avant-garde Film, Video Art, and New Media
Rituals, Conventions, Archetypes, and Formulas: Movie Genres
PART IV: HISTORIES: HOLLYWOOD AND BEYOND
Conventional Film History: Evolutions, Masterpieces, and Periodization
Global and Local: Inclusive Histories of the Movies
PART V: REACTIONS: READING AND WRITING ABOUT FILM
Reading about Film: Critical Methods and Theories
Writing a Film Essay: Observations, Arguments, Research, and Analysis
Glossary
Index
TIMOTHY CORRIGAN is Professor of Cinema Studies, English, and History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. His numerous books include New German Film: The Displaced Image, A Cinema without Walls: Movies and Culture after Vietnam, The Films of Werner Herzog: Between Mirage and History, A Short Guide to Writing about Film 4e, and Film and Literature: An Introduction and Reader. He is also one of the three editors of the journal Adaptation: The Journal of Literature on Screen Studies and serves on the editorial board of Cinema Journal. He has taught film at the University of Amsterdam, Temple University, University of Iowa, and at campuses in Tokyo, Rome, Paris, and London.
PATRICIA WHITE is Associate Professor and Chair of the Program in Film and Media Studies at Swarthmore College. She is the author of Uninvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian Representability and numerous articles and chapters on film theory and culture.
Description
The second edition of this accessible book continues to examine how we can extract a broad range of meanings from the films we watch. With an improved structure, better pedagogy and more examples from popular film, this new edition continues to give students of film the vocabulary, context and critical tools they need for serious film study.
Contents
Preface
PART I: FILM CONTEXTS: MAKING, WATCHING AND STUDYING MOVIES
Introduction to the Film Experience
Preparing Viewers and Views: Distribution, Production, Promotion, and Exhibition
PART II : COMPOSITIONS: FILM SCENES, SHOTS, CUTS AND SOUNDS
Exploring a Material World: Mise-en-Scene
Seeing through the Image: Cinematography
Relating Images: Editing
Listening to the Cinema: Film Sound
PART III: ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES: FROM STORIES TO GENRES
Telling Stories about Time: Narrative Film
Representing Reality: Documentary Films
Experimental Screens: Avant-garde Film, Video Art, and New Media
Rituals, Conventions, Archetypes, and Formulas: Movie Genres
PART IV: HISTORIES: HOLLYWOOD AND BEYOND
Conventional Film History: Evolutions, Masterpieces, and Periodization
Global and Local: Inclusive Histories of the Movies
PART V: REACTIONS: READING AND WRITING ABOUT FILM
Reading about Film: Critical Methods and Theories
Writing a Film Essay: Observations, Arguments, Research, and Analysis
Glossary
Index
Authors
TIMOTHY CORRIGAN is Professor of Cinema Studies, English, and History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. His numerous books include New German Film: The Displaced Image, A Cinema without Walls: Movies and Culture after Vietnam, The Films of Werner Herzog: Between Mirage and History, A Short Guide to Writing about Film 4e, and Film and Literature: An Introduction and Reader. He is also one of the three editors of the journal Adaptation: The Journal of Literature on Screen Studies and serves on the editorial board of Cinema Journal. He has taught film at the University of Amsterdam, Temple University, University of Iowa, and at campuses in Tokyo, Rome, Paris, and London.
PATRICIA WHITE is Associate Professor and Chair of the Program in Film and Media Studies at Swarthmore College. She is the author of Uninvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian Representability and numerous articles and chapters on film theory and culture.
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