Keiko McDonald presents a historical overview and outlines a unified approach to Japanese film theory. She analyses a wide range of work, from familiar classics by Ozu and Kurosawa to the films of a younger generation of directors.
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Cinema has often been seen as a form between media. Early cinema borrowed heavily from traditional performing arts, like theatre and tableau vivant; and the narrative forms of literature, particularly the structure of the novel, have played important roles in shaping narrative c…
White guys: studies in postmodern domination and difference
by Pfeil, Fred
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In this series of fascinating and provocative essays, Fred Pfeil exposes the contradictions and constituencies in the ongoing reconstruction of white heterosexual masculinity during the 1980s and 1990s.
White guys: studies in postmodern domination and difference
by Pfeil, Fred
fromHaymarket series
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Type: Book
In this series of fascinating and provocative essays, Fred Pfeil exposes the contradictions and constituencies in the ongoing reconstruction of white heterosexual masculinity during the 1980s and 1990s.
Presenting a model of film studies in which films themselves are only one source of information among many, this volume aims to bring together film histories that draw on primary sources including collections of personal papers, popular and trade journalism, fan magazines, studi…
The Routledge companion to religion and film
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Analyzes contemporary texts that bond together two seemingly antithetical sensibilities: the sentimental and the postmodern. This book presents case studies of audience responses to "The Piano", "Kiss of the Spider Woman", and "Northern Exposure". It argues that sentimental post…
How do film genres work on a psychological level? Providing a theoretical framework for further empirical research, this title outlines a differentiated model for analysing key devices of cinematic narration in view of their impact on the spectators' mind.
Film provides experience potential. Contemporary cognitive psychology gives the opportunity to define this impact on the film spectators' mind in regard to different aspects of cognition, imagination and emotion. Proceeding from these positions, this book.
This textbook is especially designed to introduce undergraduate students to the most important qualitative methodologies used to study film and television. The methodologies covered include ideological analysis, auteur theory, genre theory, semiotics and structuralism, psychoana…
"A wide-ranging overview of current research on music videos and audiovisual elements of popular music"--
Matilda Mroz argues that cinema provides an ideal opportunity to engage with ideas of temporal flow and change. Temporality, however, remains an underexplored area of film analysis, which frequently discusses images as though they were still rather than moving. This book traces …
Matilda Mroz argues that cinema provides an ideal opportunity to engage with ideas of temporal flow and change. Temporality, however, remains an underexplored area of film analysis, which frequently discusses images as though they were still rather than moving. This book traces …
Matilda Mroz argues that cinema provides an ideal opportunity to engage with ideas of temporal flow and change. Temporality, however, remains an underexplored area of film analysis, which frequently discusses images as though they were still rather than moving. This book traces …
Considered by many to be the best book on the interpretation of Truffaut's films