Screen Media: Analysing Film and Television

ISBN-13: 9781741754483 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 412 str.

Jane Stadler; Kelly McWilliam

Opis

Presenting a manner of thinking on both sides of the screen, this review offers screen enthusiasts the analytical and theoretical vocabulary required to articulate responses to film and television. It provides guidelines for developing the skills to understand and analyze how and why a screen text was shot, scored, and edited in a particular way, as well as for considering what impact those production choices might have on the audience. Production techniques and approaches to screen analysis are presented in a historical context. Other topics discussed include recent technological developments; the implications of increasing convergence of film and television technologies; and the aesthetics, narrative, realism, genre, celebrity, and cult media of global screen culture. Featuring extensive international examples, this is an ideal introduction to critical engagement with film and television."

Recenzje

'Screen Media offers a systematic approach to film and television analysis. The examples chosen by the authors are both appropriate and timely, and are presented in a very lively and readable form that will appeal to an international readership.' - Rebecca L. Abbott, Professor of Film, Video + Interactive Media, Quinnipiac University, USA

Spis treści

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Thinking on both sides of the screen

1 By design: Art direction and mise en sc ne construction

2 Cinematography: Writing in light and movement

3 The invisible magic of sound

4 At the edge of the cut: Editing from continuity to montage

5 Plotting and planning: Storytelling and reviewing techniques

6 Screen narratives

7 Reality and realism: Seeing is believing

8 Genre: Something new based on something familiar'

9 Star struck: Fandom and the discourse of celebrity

10 Skating the edge: Cult media and the (inter)active audience

11 The crowded screen: Transcultural influences and new directions in visual culture

Glossary

Bibliography

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O autorze

Jane Stadler is Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland. She is author of Pulling Focus: Intersubjective Experience, Narrative Film and Ethics and co-author with Michael O'Shaughnessy of Media and Society. Kelly McWilliam is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Queensland University of Technology. She is author of When Carrie Met Sally: Lesbian Romantic Comedies and co-editor with John Hartley of Story Circle: Digital Storytelling around the World.