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Studying contemporary American film : a guide to movie analysis / Thomas Elsaesser and Warren Buckland.
LIBRA PN1995 .E59 2002
Available from offsite location
LIBRA PN1995 .E59 2002
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Elsaesser, Thomas, 1943-2019.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Film criticism--United States.
- Film criticism.
- Motion pictures--United States--Evaluation.
- Motion pictures.
- Evaluation.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- x, 309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Arnold, 2002.
- Summary:
- What are the most appropriate theories and methods for analyzing contemporary America cinema? This book answers this question by taking an innovative approach to writing about individual movies: in each of the main chapters the authors examine the assumptions behind one traditional theory of film (e.g. auteurism, narratology, psychoanalysis), distil a method of analysis from it, and then analyze a contemporary American movie. They then go beyond the traditional theory by analyzing the same movie using a more current theory and method (e.g. new media theory, deconstruction, cognitivism).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0340762063
- 0340762055
- OCLC:
- 49964379
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