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Film Studies (Pocket Essential series) - Andrew M. Butler
 
Pocket Essentials | 2002 | ISBN: 1904048439 | 160 pages

Pocket Essentials is a dynamic series of books that are concise, lively, and easy to read. Packed with facts as well as expert opinions, each book has all the key information you need to know about such popular topics as film, television, cult fiction, history, and more. This book offers a concise introduction to the appreciation and study of film. It begins with the nuts and bolts, an examination of how films are put together, framing, performance, setting, costume and editing and then examines a number of approaches taken to film over the last half century, such as the auteur theory, structuralism, psychoanalysis, feminism, queer theory, and more. Applying these theories to films everyone will have seen, such as The Usual Suspects and Seven, the book also includes an overview of genres, national cinemas, and film movements worldwide.


Book Content

Introduction

1. Some Early Film Theorists
In The Beginning …, Hugo Münsterberg,Vsevolod Pudovkin, Sergei Eisenstein, Rudolf Arnheim

2. The Nuts And Bolts Of Film: Editing And Mise En Scène
The Long Take, Camera Movements And Angles, Continuity Editing, Shot/Reverse Shot,The 180° Rule,The 30° Rule And The Jump Cut, Setting, Lighting,Acting, Costume, Make-Up And Props, Symbols And Motifs

3. Auteur Theories
French Origins:The Policy Of Auteurs, Andrew Sarris:The Auteur Theory, Peter Wollen: Auteur Structuralism, Auteurs Outside Hollywood, Questioning The Auteur Theory

4. Marxism
Karl Marx,The Background To Marxism, Base And Superstructure, Ideology,The Frankfurt School, Fredric Jameson And Postmodernism

5. Semiotics And Structuralism
Ferdinand De Saussure, Charles Peirce, Roland Barthes,V I Propp and Christian Metz

6. Psychoanalysis
The Return Of The Repressed,The Oedipus Complex, Id, Ego And Superego, Fetishism,Voyeurism And Scopophilia, Jacques Lacan,The Mirror Phase And The Imaginary,The Symbolic Order And The Real, Laura Mulvey And The Gaze

7. Feminism
Female, Feminine, Feminist,The Canon, Representation Of Women In Film, Representation Of Inequalities,The Gendered Construction Of The Viewer, Possibilities For A Female Cinema

8. Queer Theory
The Homosexual, Homosociality And Fratriarchy, Gays And Lesbians On Film,The Structure Of The Buddy Movie, Camp

9. Stars
Production, Consumption

10. Genres
What Is Genre? The Problem Of Genre, Modelling Genres, The History Of Genres

11. National Cinema
The Nature Of National Cinema, National Cinemas, Australian Cinema, Problems Of Discussing National Cinema

12. Film Movements And Genres
An annotated listing from Anime to the Western

References
Select Bibliography, Websites

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