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1999, Routledge Sorry, sold out, but click image to access prebuilt search for this title on Amazon Alternative online retailers to try: Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Alibris Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Ebay
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About the Author: Graeme Turner at the time of publication was Professor of Cultural Studies in the Department of English at the University of Queensland. He is the author of British Cultural Studies (also published by Routledge) About the Book: This new edition of a classic student textbook explores the feature film as entertainment, as narrative and as cultural event. Graeme Turner provides a clear introduction to major theoretical issues in the history of film production and film studies. He uses the issues to examine the cultural function of film and its place in our popular culture. He also considers the place of film institutions in national political culture and whether cultural theory is relevant in explaining the social practice of making, watching and talking about feature films. This third edition looks at classic and popular contemporary films, now including Scream 2, The Wedding Singer and Lethal Weapon 4, and includes a selection of brand new film stills. Contents: Chapter 2. From Seventh Art to Social Practice-A History of Film Studies: Early Aesthetic Approaches; Realist Approaches; Auteurs and Genres; The Institutionalization of Film Studies; Film as Social Practice; Suggestions for Further Work. Chapter 3. Film Languages: Culture; Film as a Signifying Practice; The Signifiying Systems; Reading the Film; Suggestions for Further Work Chapter 4. Film Narrative: The Universality of Story; The Function of Narrative; Structuralism and Narrative; Codes and Conventions; Genre; Structuralism, genre and the western; Narrative and narration; Suggestions for further work Chapter 5. Film Audiences: Specifying the Audience; Stars; The Film Experience; The Film Spectator and Psychoanalysis; Audience Identification; Desire and The Image; Audiences, texts, and meanings; Suggestions for further work Chapter 6. Film, Culture and Ideology: Film and National Culture; A National Cinema: the Australian Revival; Ideology in the Text; Issues in Ideological Analysis; Suggestions for Further Work Chapter 7. Applications: References; Index |
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2007, University of Texas Press, pbk Sorry, sold out, but click image above to access a prebuilt search for this title on Amazon UK Alternative online retailers to try: Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Alibris Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Ebay
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About this book: From the exuberant excesses of Carmen Miranda in the "tutti frutti hat" to the curvaceous posterior of Jennifer Lopez, the Latina body has long been a signifier of Latina/o identity is U.S. popular culture. But how does this stereotype of the exotic, erotic Latina "bombshell" relate, if at all, to real Latina women who represent a wide spectrum of ethnicities, national origins, cultures, and physical appearances? How are ideas about "Latinidad" imagined, challenged, and inscribed on Latina bodies? What racial, class and other markers of identity do representations of the Latina body signal or reject? In this broadly interdisciplinary book, experts from the fields of Latina/o studies, media studies, communication, comparative literature, women's studies, and sociology come together to offer the first wide-ranging look at the construction and representation of Latina identity in U.S. popular culture. The authors consider such popular figures as actresses Lupe Velez, Salma Hayek, and Jennifer Lopez; singers Shakira and Celia Cruz; and even the Hispanic Barbie doll in her many guises. They investigate the media discourses surrounding controversial Latinas such as Lorena Bobbitt and Marisleysis Gonzalez. And they discuss Latina representations in Lupe Solano's series of mystery books and in the popular TV Shows El Show de Cristina and Laura en America. This extensive treatment of Latina representation in popular culture not only gives a fresh insight into how meaning is produced through images of the Latin body, but also how such images are received, altered and challenged Contents: SECTION TWO: Performing Bodies: Contemporary Film and Music Media SECTION THREE. Sensational Bodies: Discourses of Latina Femininity |
Latina Films |
1994, Marion Boyars, pbk In stock, click image above to buy for £10.50, not including post and packing, which is Amazon UK's standard charge Alternative online retailers to try: Or click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Alibris Or click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Ebay Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Biblio
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About this book/synopsis: The title chosen by Pauline Kael for this classic collection of her film writings reflects a period of prolonged and sensitive commitment to a medium which was going through an era of profound and exciting change. The author states in the foreword that the reviews in this book constitute in some ways the best writing she had done because she had at that time (1968 onward, the period in which 'The New Yorker' had hired Pauline Kael to write a regular weekly column about movies) an editor who loved movies and who gave her the freedom to develop a sustained position on movies week on week; and also the independence from advertisers and from worries on what reader response would be to the reviews. This kind of independence makes criticism possible. The late sixties saw great cultural and political upheavals reflected in such films as Godard's "Weekend", Kubrik's "2001", and Bellochio's "China is Near". This volume also deals with films that are now recognised classics : 'Funny Girl", "Bullitt", "Barbarella" and "Yellow Submarine", among others. In "Going Steady", Paulin Kael has kept her reviews in sequence so that 'the reader can follow not only what was evolving in films during a crucial period of social and aesthetic change at the end of the sixties, but follow the reviewer's developing responses.' It also contains her essay 'Trash, Art and the Movies.' Those who believe that criticism is a lesser art should read Pauline Kael. She carries her reader forward intuitively and compellingly waiting for her intelligent and witty conclusions Contents: Celebrities Make Spectacles of Themselves Ciphers Intentions Making Lawrence more Lawrentian Apes Must Be Remembered, Charlie A Great Folly, and a Small One That Clean Old Peasant Again Business As Usual The Freedom to Make Product O Pioneer! The Old Wave A Minority Movie 2. Trash, Art, and the Movies (essay) Weekend in Hell War as Vaudeville "She Came at Me in Sections" Cripes! Lionness in Winter Muddling Through Metamorphosis of the Beatles The Corrupt and the Primitive The Concealed Art of Carol Reed Frightening the Horses A Sign of Life Big Misses Filmed Theatre Baggy Pants Son of Little Caesar Overkill? Saintliness The Lady from Across the Sea He Walks in Beauty The Small Winner School Days, School Days Index |
Other Film Review Books - 1960s Bad Movies! Great Movies! |
2001, Routledge, hbk In stock, click to buy for £15.99, not including p&p Alternative online retailers to try: Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Alibris Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Ebay
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About this book/synopsis: This book brings together cultural studies -analysis of cultures and audiences- and the study of popular cinema around the world (the film industry, production and technology). In essence, it's looking at the film industry in relation to the environment (global human societies and cultures) its products are consumed in; and driven and defined by. The various contributors have looked and thought again about contemporary film culture keeping in mind concepts and concerns such as feminism, queer theory, "race" studies, critiques of nationalism, colonialism and post colonialism, the cultural economics of the fanbase (here called fandom), spectator theory, and Marxism. Chapters: Part 1 1. "You've been in my life so long I can't remember anything else": into the labyrinth with Ripley and the Alien 2. Warrior marks: global womanism's neo-colonial discourse in a multicultural context 3. "Daddy, where's the FBI warning?":constructing the video spectator 4. Romance and/as tourism: heritage whiteness and the (inter)national imaginary in the new woman's film 5. Race as spectacle, feminism as alibi: representing the civil rights era in the 1990s Part 2 6. Judy on the net: Judy Garland fandom and "the gay thing" revisited 7. Jackie Chan and the black connection 8. Stardom and serial fantasies: Thomas Harris's Hannibal 9. Learning from Bruce Lee: pedagogy and political correctness in martial arts cinema 10. "Waas sappening?": narrative structure and iconography in Born in East L. A Part 3 11. The voice of pornography: tracking the subject through the sonic spaces of gay male moving-image pornography 12. Nostalgia of the new wave: structure in Wong Kar-wai's Happy Together 13. Mario Lanza and the "fourth world" 14. Devouring creation: cannibalism, sodomy, and the scene of analysis in Suddenly, Last Summer 15. Queer Bollywood, or "I'm the player, you're the naive one": patterns of sexual subversion in recent Indian popular cinema Part 4 16. Cinema studies doesn't matter; or, I know what you did last semester 17. 12 Monkeys, postmodernism, and the urban: toward a new method 18. Terminator technology: Hollywood, history, and technology 19. "Compulsory" viewing for every citizen: Mr. Smith and the rhetoric of reception 20. Standardizing professionalism and showmanship: the performance of motion picture projectionists during the early sync-sound era 21. States of emergency Index |
2001, Routledge, hbk 2001, Routledge, pbk Cinema Studies: Film Studies: |
1987, Marion Boyars, hbk Sorry, sold out, but click image above to access a prebuilt search for this title on Amazon UK Alternative online retailers to try: Or click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Alibris Or click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Ebay Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Biblio
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About this book: The legend "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" on an Italian film poster struck Pauline Kael as the definition of the basic appeal of films. In this collection of reviews (1965-7) and essays, Kael , America's most celebrated film critic gives us what amounts to an informal history of cinema. Her reviews (of some 300 filems) are as cogent, entertaining and informative as we have come to expect. As well as these, there are essays on westerns, big Hollywood films, camp films and spoofs, art films, fad films, films for children and films on television. There are thoughtful analyses of the careers of Marlon Brando, Orson Welles, and Stanley Kramer and a fascinating day-by-day account of how Mary McCarthy's novel 'The Group' was turned into a film Contents: |
20th Century Movie Reviews |
1987, Cambridge University Press, hbk In stock, click image above to buy for £125.00, not including post and packing Alternative online retailers to try: Or click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Alibris Or click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Ebay Or try Biblio
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About this book: Sergei Eisenstein - director of Battleship Potemkin, October (Ten Days That Shook The World), Alexander Nevsky, and Ivan the Terrible - is widely regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of film. A brilliant intellectual, devoted to the study and practice of the cinema, he formulated a theory of montage that continues to have a strong influence on theories of film communication. Nonindifferent Nature represents the most advanced stage of Eisenstein's thinking on the structure of film. Never before available in its entirety in English, this engaging but difficult work calls for a complete revision of our understanding of the film-maker. Herbert Marshall's translation reveals dramatically the "second" Eisenstein, after his shift from a Pavlovian to an organic viewpoint. Heretofore known almost exclusively for his writings during the earlier constructivist period, Eisenstein can now be seen for the first time in relation to traditions other than the militant constructivism of his youth. This volume is representative of the filmmaker's most pressing artistic concerns during the very active and energetic final decade of his life. Herbert Marshall's translation conveys the spontaneity and passion of this late uncompleted work, providing rare insight into the mind of this director. The illustrations include many of Eisenstein's own sketches and diagrams. A foreword by Herbert Eagle helps general readers by placing the work in the context of Eisenstein's career and thought. Nonindifferent Nature will become known as Eisenstein's most important work on the philosophical and aesthetic basis of cinematography. Contents: 2. Pathos 4. Nonindifferent nature |
Russian Cinema |
1991, Routledge Sorry, sold out, but click image to access prebuilt search for this book on Amazon Alternative online retailers to try: Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Alibris Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Ebay
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About the Book: Newspapers, magazines, gossip columns, TV chat shows, record sleeves-all display a variety of film star images. In the past stars have been studied as cogs in a mass entertainment industry selling desires and ideologies. But since the 1970s, new approaches have reopened debate, as film and cultural studies try to account for the active role of the star in producing meanings, pleasures, and identites for a diversity of audiences. Stardom brings together for the first time some of the major writing of the last decade which seeks to understand the phemomenon of stars and stardom. Gathered under four headings - The System, Stars and Society, Performers and Signs, Desire and Politics - these essays represent a range of approaches drawn from film history, sociolgy, textual analysis, audience research, psychoanalysis, and cultural politics. They raise important issues about the politics of representation and the cultural limitations and possibilities of stars Contents: Part 2: Stars and society Part 3: Performers and Signs Part 4: Desire, meaning and politics Select bibliography; Index |
1991, Routledge, hbk 1991, Routledge, pbk |
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