Studying Contemporary American Film: A Guide to Movie Analysis / Edition 1

by Thomas Elsaesser, Warren Buckland

Overview

What are the most appropriate theories and methods for analyzing contemporary America cinema? This book answers this question by taking an innovative approach to writing about individual movies: in each of the main chapters the authors examine the assumptions behind one traditional theory of film (e.g. auteurism, narratology, psychoanalysis), distil a method of analysis from it, and then analyze a contemporary American movie. They then go beyond the traditional theory by analyzing the same movie using a more current theory and method (e.g. new media theory, deconstruction, cognitivism).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780340762066
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	03/01/2002
Series:	Arnold Publications Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.67(d)

About the Author

Thomas Elsaesser, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Warren Buckland, Oxford Brookes University, UK

Table of Contents

Preface

Editorial Reviews

"An excellently organized book. The writing style is clear, but with an academic tone." --Plugincinema.com

From the Publisher

An excellently organized book. The writing style is clear, but with an academic tone.

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