Studying Contemporary American Film: A Guide to Movie Analysis

ISBN-13: 9780340762066 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 320 str.

Thomas Elsaesser

Opis

This text presents the most appropriate theories and methods for analyzing contemporary America cinema. Using an innovative approach to writing about individual movies, each of the main chapters examines the assumptions behind one traditional theory of film (e.g. auteurism, narratology, psychoanalysis), distills a method of analysis from it, and then analyzes a contemporary American movie. The text then goes beyond traditional theory by analyzing the same movie using a more current theory and method (e.g. new media theory, deconstruction, cognitivism).

Recenzje

'An excellently organised book. The writing style is clear, but with an academic tone.' Plugincinema.com

Spis treści

Film Theory, Methods and Analysis
Classical
Post-Classical Narrative (Die Hard)
Mise en Scene Criticism and Statistical Style Analysis (The English Patient)
From Thematic Criticism to Deconstructive Analysis (Chinatown)
S/Z, the 'Readerly' Film, and Video Game Logic (The Fifth Element)
Cognitive Theories of Narration (Lost Highway)
Realism in the Photographic and Digital Image (Jurassic Park and The Lost World)
Oedipal Narratives and the Post-Oedipal (Back to the Future)
Feminism, Foucault and Deleuze (The Silence of the Lambs)
Conclusion.

O autorze

THOMAS ELSAESSER was Professor Emeritus at the University of Amsterdam. His recent authored works included European Cinema and Continental Philosophy (2018); Film History as Media Archaeology (2016); German Cinema - Terror and Trauma: Cultural Memory since 1945 (2013); and The Persistence of Hollywood (2011). Warren Buckland is Reader in Film Studies at Oxford Brookes University, UK. Among the books he has authored are: Studying Contemporary American Film (with Thomas Elsaesser); the best-selling Teach Yourself Film Studies; The Cognitive Semiotics of Film; and The Film Spectator. He also edits the journal The New Review of Film and Television Studies.