Screen methods : comparative readings in film studies / edited by Jacqueline Furby & Karen Randell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Furby, Jacqueline.

Randell, Karen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Study and teaching.

Physical Description:

x, 179 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Wallflower, 2005.

Summary:

Screen Methods: Comparative Readings in Film Studies is a collection of essays that explores in detail the way in which Film Studies, an increasingly popular subject at universities, has been approached theoretically, culturally and historically and the ways in which this has changed in the twenty-first century. In so doing, the contributors to this unique volume also give an invaluable insight into many of the theories at the heart of Film Studies. The book focuses on classical theories, culture-based approaches, early and modern theory, statistical approaches and the potential futures of critical film theory. Divided into three sections, the essays discuss 'film form and method', including notions of time, space and sound in cinema; 'theory and method', including the idea of spectatorship and portrayals of sex, sexuality and family; and 'new technology and method', which includes digital cinema, the influence of special effects and audience studies. Case studies include Star Wars, A Room with a View, Philadelphia, Romance, American Beauty and Gladiator, as well as the paintings of Jacques-Louis David and the films of Ridley Scott.

Contents:

Scape: film form and method

1 Mapping Cinema Space / Melenia Arouh 10

2 Rhizomatic Time and Temporal Poetics in American Beauty / Jacqueline Furby 18

3 Inside the 'Black Box': From Jacques-Louis David to Ridley Scott / Damian Sutton 27

4 Dangerous Metaphors and Meaning in Immersive Media / Martin Lister 38

5 Sound and Empathy: Subjectivity, Gender and the Cinematic Soudscape / Robynn J. Stilwell 48

Views: theory and method

6 Masochism, Fetishism and the Castrating Gaze: Female Perversions in Catherine Breillat's Romance / John Phillips 63

7 Techno-Orientalism and the Postmodern Subject / Christine Cornea 72

8 To Release Himself at the Last Moment: Constructing the Sexual Deviant in Hyde on Screen / Darren Kerr 82

9 Room with a Gay View? Sexuality, Spectatorship and A Room With A View / Michael Williams 91

10 Messy, but Innocuous: Philadelphia's AIDS Case / Monica B. Pearl 102

11 Representing the Postwar Family: The Figure of the Absent Father in Early Postwar Hollywood film / Mike Copra-Gant 109

Scenes: new technology and method

12 Big Pictures: Studying Contemporary Hollywood Cinema Through its Greatest Hits / Peter Kramer 124

13 The Impact of Changes in Filmgoing Behaviour on the Structure and Practices of Hollywood between 1945 and 1946 / John Sedgwick 133

14 'Fact', 'Fiction' and Everything Inbetween: Negotiating Boundaries in Crimewatch UK / Deborah Jermyn 145

15 Fantasy Disguise: Where New Communications Meets Old Entertainments / David Lusted 157

16 Buckle Your Seat-belt Dorothy... 'Cause Cinema is Going Bye-byes / William Merrin 167.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1904764355

1904764347

OCLC:

56964780

Publisher Number:

9781904764359