Book description
Film: The Key Concepts presents a coherent, clear and exciting overview
of film theory for beginning readers. The book takes the reader through
the often conflicting analyses that make up film theory, illustrating
arguments with examples from mainstream and independent films. Concise
and comprehensive, the book guides the reader through realism,
formalism, structuralism, semiotics, Marxism, psychoanalysis, feminism,
cognitivism, post-colonialism, postmodernism, gender and queer film
theory, stardom and film audience research. The book as a whole provides
a complete overview of the evolution of film theory. Throughout, the
analysis is illustrated with lively boxed studies of key mainstream and
independent films. Bulleted chapter summaries, questions and guides to
further reading are also provided. Film: The Key Concepts presents a
coherent, clear and exciting overview of film theory for beginning
readers. The book takes the reader through the often conflicting
analyses that make up film theory, illustrating arguments with examples
from mainstream and independent films. Concise and comprehensive, the
book guides the reader through realism, formalism, structuralism,
semiotics, Marxism, psychoanalysis, feminism, cognitivism,
post-colonialism, postmodernism, gender and queer film theory, stardom
and film audience research. The book as a whole provides a complete
overview of the evolution of film theory. Throughout, the analysis is
illustrated with lively boxed studies of key mainstream and independent
films. Bulleted chapter summaries, questions and guides to further
reading are also provided.
