Film, Form, and Culture

Film, Form, and Culture

Film, Form, and Culture

Film, Form, and Culture

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Overview

This fifth edition of Film, Form, and Culture offers a lively introduction to both the formal and cultural aspects of film.

With extensive analysis of films past and present, this textbook explores how films are constructed from part to whole: from the smallest unit of the shot to the way shots are edited together to create narrative. Robert P. Kolker and Marsha Gordon demystify the technical aspects of filmmaking and demonstrate how fiction and nonfiction films engage with culture. Over 265 images provide a visual index to the films and issues being discussed. This new edition includes: an expanded examination of digital filmmaking and distribution in the age of streaming; attention to superhero films throughout; a significantly longer chapter on global cinema with new or enlarged sections on a variety of national cinemas (including cinema from Nigeria, Senegal, Burkina Faso, South Korea, Japan, India, Belgium, and Iran); new or expanded discussions of directors, including Alice Guy-Blaché, Lois Weber, Oscar Micheaux, Agnès Varda, Spike Lee, Julie Dash, Jafar Panahi, Ava DuVernay, Jane Campion, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne and Penny Lane; and new, in-depth explorations of films, including Within Our Gates (1919), Black Girl (1966), Creed (2015), Moonlight (2016), Wonder Woman (2017), Get Out (2017), Black Panther (2018), Parasite (2019), Da 5 Bloods (2020), The French Dispatch (2021), The Power of the Dog (2021), RRR (2022), and Tár (2022).

This textbook is an invaluable and exciting resource for students beginning film studies at undergraduate level.

Additional resources for students and teachers can be found on the eResource, which includes case studies, discussion questions, and links to useful websites.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781032505251
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 03/29/2024
Edition description: 5th ed.
Pages: 378
Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Robert P. Kolker is Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA. He is the author/editor of several books on film including The Oxford Handbook of Film and Media Studies (2008), A Cinema of Loneliness, 4th edition (2011), The Cultures of American Film (2014), The Extraordinary Image: Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, and the Reimagining of Cinema (2016), Politics Goes to the Movies (2018), Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film (2019), and, with Nathan Abrams, Kubrick: An Odyssey (2024).

Marsha Gordon is Professor and Director of Film Studies at North Carolina State University, USA. She is the author of Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life & Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott (2023), Film is Like a Battleground: Sam Fuller’s War Movies (2017), and Hollywood Ambitions: Celebrity in the Movie Age (2008), and co-editor of Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film (2019) and Learning With the Lights Off: Educational Film in the United States (2012).

Table of Contents

Introduction  1. Image and Reality  2. Formal Structures: How Films Tell Their Stories  3. The Building Blocks Of Film I: The Shot and Its Elements  4. The Building Blocks of Film II: The Cut  5. The Story Tellers of Film I  6. The Storytellers of Film II: Acting  7. The Storytellers of Film III: The Director  8. Global Cinema  9. The Stories Told By Film I  10. The Stories Told by Film II  11. Film as Cultural Practice

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