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Both comprehensive and compact, Beginning film studies is a much needed introduction to the study of film, combining depth with clarity and scholarship with a lightness of touch. Written with verve and wit, it charts for new readers to the field the complex landscape of twentieth and twenty-first century film studies. As well as evaluating significant trends in the discipline’s past and present, it suggests directions for film studies in the future when cinema will increasingly be challenged by other forms of visual culture.
Beginning film studies is wide-ranging, moving outwards from detailed consideration of film stylistics to explore questions of narrative authorship, genre, the start and ideology. Later chapters on production and consumption assess the discipline’s recent ‘geographical’ turn.

Discussion is illustrated by references to film cultures as diverse as classical Hollywood, the French ‘New Wave’ and contemporary Hong Kong, India and Latin America; more than a little is said about Johnny Deep. The book is interactive throughout, with the reader encouraged to reflect critically upon each chapter’s theories and methods and to apply these to his or her film viewing. Comprehensive lists of secondary reading and online materials make Beginning film studies the ideal resource for students keen to enter this dynamic subject.

About the Author

Andrew Dix is Lecturer in American Studies at Loughborough University



Table of Contents:
Introduction: what are film studies? • From magic lanterns to videogames • About this book • Seeing film: mise-en-scène analysis • Defining mise-en-scène • Pro-filmic elements of mise-en-scène • Cinematography • Colour and its meanings • Analysing mise-en-scène: In the Mood for Love • Selected reading • Useful websites • Film editing: theories and histories • Beyond the shot • Principles and practices of continuity editing • Continuity editing and its discontents • Montage(s) • Meanings of the jump cut • Analysing editing: Strike and Matewan • Selected reading • Useful websites • Hearing film: analysing soundtracks • Deafening silents • Sound and fury • Terminologies of sound analysis • Music for films • Analysing soundtrack: Le Mépris • Selected reading • Useful websites • Film and narrative • Russian Formalists at the cinema • Time and motion pictures • The sense of an ending • Narrative and power • Analysing narrative: 21 Grams • Selected reading • Useful websites • Film and authorship • Auteur studies: Cahiers du cinéma and other journals • The problems of auteurism • The rebirth of the author • Digital auteurs • Analysing authorship: David Lynch • Selected reading • Useful websites • Film and genre • Taxonomies of film genre • Threads, prisms, maps • Generic communities or, the strange case of the cycling film • Genres and history • The end of genre? • Analysing genre: the high school movie • Selected reading • Useful websites • Star studies • Political economies of film stardom • The making and meaning of star personas • Seeing stars • National and transnational stars • Tiger, not James,Woods • Analysing stars: Johnny Depp • Selected reading • Useful websites • Film and ideology • Class struggle – and the struggle for class – in film studies • A very short history of gender in film studies • Queering cinema • Unthinking racism in film studies • Analysing ideology: Far From Heaven • Selected reading • Useful websites • Film production • Hollywood • Beyond Hollywood: two examples • National and transnational film • Analysing production: In This World • Selected reading • Useful websites • Film consumption • Places and experiences • Cinema before cinemas • Spaces of cinemagoing • Home looking • Analysing consumption: Metro Cinema, Derby • Selected reading • Useful websites • Conclusion: film studies in the digital age • Selected reading • Useful websites • Further reading • Online resources • Index


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9788130914480
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 203 mm
  • No of Pages: 368
  • ISBN-10: 8130914484
  • Publisher Date: 2015
  • Edition: 1
  • Language: English
  • Width: 127 mm

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