Studying Contemporary American Film A Guide to Movie Analysis,9780340762066

Studying Contemporary American Film A Guide to Movie Analysis

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ISBN13: 9780340762066
ISBN10: 0340762063
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-03-01
Publisher(s): Bloomsbury Academic
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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 offilm (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).

Author Biography

Thomas Elsaesser, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Warren Buckland, Oxford Brookes University, UK

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Film theory, methods, analysis
1(25)
Classical/post-classical narrative (Die Hard)
26(54)
Mise-en-scene criticism and statistical style analysis (The English Patient)
80(37)
From thematic criticism to deconstructive analysis (Chinatown)
117(29)
S/Z, the `readerly' film, and video game logic (The Fifth Element)
146(22)
Cognitive theories of narration (Lost Highway)
168(27)
Realism in the photographic and digital image (Jurassic Park and The Lost World)
195(25)
Oedipal narratives and the post-Oedipal (Back to the Future)
220(29)
Feminism, Foucault, and Deleuze (The Silence of the Lambs)
249(35)
Conclusion 284(10)
References 294(9)
Index 303

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