This title examines what it really means to study film, encouraging the reader to question the dominant theories as well as understanding the key approaches to cinema. The book provides an overview of the construction of film studies and examines the application of theories to film texts.
This title examines what it really means to study film, encouraging the reader to question the dominant theories as well as understanding the key appr...
Bringing together key writings with original textbook material, the second edition of "Media Studies: The Essential Resource" explains central perspectives and concepts within Media Studies. Readers are introduced to a range of writing on media topics promoting an understanding of the subject from both contemporary and historical perspectives.
The text is split into three parts covering Analysis and Perspectives, Media Audiences and Ecologies and Creativities."" The key areas of study are discussed, with accessible readings from essential theoretical texts and fully supported with an...
Bringing together key writings with original textbook material, the second edition of "Media Studies: The Essential Resource" explains central pers...
Crime films have, since the earliest days of cinema, been popular with audiences, industry and critics alike and encompassed a diverse range of subjects, styles and themes. The genre provides a range of pleasures for the spectator, from taking on the role of the detective in the pursuit of clues in the 'whodunit', to the more illicit thrills of identification with an anti hero. In the many incarnations of the crime film such as the gangster, film noir, political and detective thrillers, the genre explores the anxieties of different historical moments.
Sarah Casey Benyahia...
Crime films have, since the earliest days of cinema, been popular with audiences, industry and critics alike and encompassed a diverse range of sub...
This title examines what it really means to study film, encouraging the reader to question the dominant theories as well as understanding the key approaches to cinema. The book provides an overview of the construction of film studies and examines the application of theories to film texts.
This title examines what it really means to study film, encouraging the reader to question the dominant theories as well as understanding the key appr...
