From Antz to Titanic : reinventing film analysis / Martin Barker, with Thomas Austin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barker, Martin.

Contributor:

Austin, Thomas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Film criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (227 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A jargon-free and accessible introduction to film analysis.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgements

1. Films, Audiences and Analyses

Why Bother Analysing Films?

The Embedded Audience

It's a Wonderful Assumption

Conclusion

Notes 1-20

21-36

37

2. Formalism and the Implied Audience

The Formalist Tradition

Expanding from Formalism

Reader Response Criticism

The Implied Audience - a Formal Definition

How This Book Is Organised, Henceforth

Notes 1-15

16-20

3. Usual Suspects, Unusual Devices

Analytic Description

Preliminary Analysis

How Is Understanding The Usual Suspects Possible?

Zooming In

Note 1

2-6

4. 'An Ant With Ideas . . .'

2-13

14-15

5. Titanic: A Knight to Remember

Notes 1-9

6. In the Jungle, the Mighty Jungle

A Bad Case of the Hyenas

The Implied Audience

Notes 1-11

12-13

7. 'Like Food Processors, But Nasty'

Notes 1-8

9-12

8. Dear Meg, Dearest Tom

Zooming In ( 1)

Zooming In ( 2)

Notes 1-10

11-17

9. A Very Deep Impact

Zooming In ( 3)

The Moral Meanings of Effects

Deep Impact and the Disaster Tradition

Notes 1-4

5-14

15-21

10. Showing That It Is What It Is

Testing, Testing

Some Criteria for Evaluating Textual Analyses

Staging Stagecoach

Post-analysis

Susan Sontag's Critique

Naming and Shamaning

16-30

31-33

Notes.

Chapter 1. Films, Audiences and Analyses

Chapter 2. Formalism and the Implied Audience

Chapter 3. Usual Suspects, Unusual Devices

Chapter 4. An Ant With Ideas

Chapter 5.

: A Knight to Remember

Chapter 6. In the Jungle, the Mighty Jungle

Chapter 7. Like Food Processors, But Nasty

Chapter 8. Dear Meg, Dearest Tom

Chapter 9. A Very Deep Impact

Chapter 10. Showing That It Is What It Is

Bibliography

Filmography

Index

Aesthetic responses

31

48

188

191

193

Affair to Remember, An

141-2

148

Alien

30

129

Aliens 88

All Quiet on the Western Front 181

All the President's Men 164

Altman, Rick

156

173

177-8

206n

208n

Ang, Ien 204n

Antz

72-86

199n

Armageddon 155-6

Audience

Embedded/implicit 3

Embedded/implicit 5-31

Embedded/implicit 180-1

Empirical research 49

Empirical research 175

Empirical research 187

Empirical research 190

Awful Truth, The 137

Babington, Bruce 204n

Baker, Robin

83

200n

Baker, Steve 202n

Basic Instinct 120

Berger, John

47-8

198n

204n

Bigger Than Life 16

Birth of a Nation, The 189

Blade Runner 201n

Blair Witch Project, The

181

195n

Bondebjerg, Ib 206n

Booth, Wayne

42-4

46

197n

Bordwell, David

11-13

15-16

20

29

32

34

Bourdieu, Pierre 35

British Board of Film Classification 9

Browne, Kevin

9-11

Browne, Nick

183-6

Bryman, Alan

106

202n

Buckland, Warren

180

183

201n

207n

Bug's Life, A

72

80

Byrne, Eleanor

209n

Cannibal Holocaust

10

Capra, Frank 15-29

Carroll, Noel 207n.

Cavell, Stanley 22

Christie, Ian

137-8

Cognitive processes

30-1

36

40

70

Cueing 11-13

Cueing 34

Cueing 39

Cueing 48

Cueing 137

Cueing 144

Knowledge, Hierarchies of 19-20

Knowledge, Hierarchies of 28

Knowledge, Hierarchies of 99

Knowledge, Hierarchies of 113

Knowledge, Hierarchies of 116

Knowledge, Hierarchies of 149

Cormack, Mike

181-2

Corner, John 197n

Crash

41

176

189

Culler, Jonathan

45

Dante's Peak 155

Darnton, Robert 208n

Davis, Mike 205n

Deep Impact

155-73

205n

Defamiliarisation

33

58

192

Deleyto, Celestino 204n

Devil's Island, The 38

Die Hard 156

Dirth Dozen, The

142

Disaster films

155-6

163

172-3

Disney

105-6

115

118

Dorfman, Ariel 204n

Dostoyevsky, Feodor 44

Double Indemnity 6

DreamWorks

Driller Killer 11

Dyer, Richard

3

203n

Effects tradition

13

Eikhenbaum, Boris

37-8

39

Elley, Derek 201n

Emotional responses

28

34-5

Evans, Peter William

Falling Down 117

Fascism

120-2

133

Fatal Attraction 143

Few Good Men, A 77

Film noir

6

154

Formalism/Neo-Formalism

32-41

53

Forrest Gump 145

Franklin, John Hope 209n

Gabriel, John 203n

Gauntlett, David 195n

Genre

163-4

Gilbert, James 203n

Girgus, Sam

15

25-9

196n

Gledhill, Christine 205n.

Gone with the Wind 88

Goodman, Nelson 34

Grease 78

Hainsworth, J. B. 201n

Heard, Christopher 201n

Heinlein, Robert

120-1

Howells, Richard

87

Hunt, Susan 209n

Identification

4

13-20

116

179

184-6

Ideology

8

21

29-30

119

165

Imaginative universe

55

152-3

175

Implied audience

Formal definition 48-9

Role of 37

Role of 39

Role of 41

Role of 55

Role of 57-8

Role of 63-71

Independence Day

81

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 13-15

Ingarten, Roman 45

Iser, Wolfgang

45-7

It Started with a Kiss 136

It's a Wonderful Life 15-29

Jaws 206n

Jazz Singer, The 182-6

Jeffords, Susan 205n

Johnson, Claire 199n

Judge Dredd

121

187

Jurassic Park 36

Karnick, Kristine

137

Kavanagh, James

Kellner, Douglas

7-8

King, Barry

146

Kramer, Peter

113

Krutnik, Frank

135-7

Landon, Brooks

84

Laura 34

LaValley, Albert J.

82-3

Lewis, Justin 199n

Lion King, The

105-19

194

Little Big Man 36

Matrix, The 198n

Mattelart, Armand 204n

McDonald, Paul 195n

McQuillan, Martin

Moby Dick 161

Modality of response

79

Modern Times 73

Modleski, Tania

Morley, David 188

Mulvey, Laura

Narration

44

54

57-8

100

Narrative components

47

49

144

Narrative retellings

49-53

58-63

73-6

Nash, Melanie 209n

Natural Born Killers

11

198n.

Neale, Steve

153-4

Negra, Diane 205n

Newman, Kim 205n

Old San Francisco 182

Out for Justice 10

Parallax View, The 164

Parisi, Paula 201n

Pateman, Trevor 199n

Patton 77

Peacemaker, The 72

Pierson, Michelle

Place, Janey

Poague, Leland

17

19

22-5

Pro-filmic theory 193-4

Psychoanalysis

13-15

17-20

Public Access

50

56

Pulp Fiction 78

Purdie, Susan 204n

Rabinowitz, Howard 206n

Rabinowitz, Peter

Radway, Janice 204n

Raiders of the Lost Ark 180

Rambo

Ray, Robert B.

20-2

27

Reader-response criticism 42-8

Rear Window

Rebel Without a Cause 120

Reds

Representation

53-4

116-17

147

Ricoeur, Paul 198n

Robocop

85

Rocky 11

Roddick, Nick 206n

Rogin, Michael

83-4

Romance 176

Romantic comedy 134-7

Rowe, Kathleen 204n

Ruthrof, Horst 197n

Sammon, Paul M. 203n

Sandler, Kevin S 201n

Saved from the Titanic 87

Saving Private Ryan 11

Schindler's List

Schlovsky, Victor 32

Sensory response

190-2

Show of Shows 182

Showgirls 120

Silverman, Kaja

22

25

Silverstone, Roger 210n

Simpsons, The 200n

Sleepless in Seattle

134-54

Small Soldiers 80

Snitow, Ann 204n

Sontag, Susan

Sound of Music, The 88

Sound, Components of

59

68

91

110-11

Special effects

77

80-2

103-4

120

Spignesi, Stephen J 201n

Spillane, Mickey 43

Stage Fright 57

Stagecoach 183-6

Staiger, Janet

209n.

Star Wars.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-215); filmography (p. [216-218) and index.

ISBN:

0-585-42619-8

OCLC:

70754368