A Companion to Film TheoryISBN: 978-0-631-20645-3
Paperback
436 pages
May 2004, Wiley-Blackwell
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This volume of specially commissioned work by experts in the field
of film studies provides a comprehensive overview of the field. Its
international and interdisciplinary approach will have a broad
appeal to those interested in this multifaceted subject.
- Provides a major collection of specially commissioned work by
experts in the field of film studies.
- Represents material under a variety of headings, including
class, race, gender, queer theory, nation, stars, ethnography,
authorship, and spectatorship.
- Offers an international approach to the subject, including
coverage of topics such as genre, image, sound, editing, culture
industries, early cinema, classical Hollywood, and TV relations and
technology.
- Includes concise chapter-by-chapter accounts of the background
and current approaches to each topic, followed by a prognostication
on the future.
- Considers cinema studies in relation to other forms of knowledge, such as critical studies, anthropology, and literature.