Thinking about Movies Watching, Questioning, Enjoying

Name: Thinking about Movies Watching, Questioning, Enjoying
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ISBN: 9781405154031

ISBN-10: 1405154039

ISBN-13: 9781405154031

Edition: 3rd 2008 (Revised)

Authors: Peter Lehman, William Luhr

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Guiding students and movie lovers through the building blocks required to watch movies critically and analytically, Thinking About Movies 2nd edition offers an intelligent and lively introduction to the ways movies are constructed, achieve their effect, and convey their powerful messages. Provides a comprehensive guide for students and movie lovers to watching movies critically and analytically. Introduces the critical building blocks required to understand film as an important narrative and cultural form. Guides readers through basic approaches to film analysis such as authorship, genre, race, class, gender, film theory, audience, and reception. Includes discussion of a diverse…

Book details

List price: $83.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/24/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 440
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.2
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



Introduction


Fatal Attraction and Scarface



Narrative Structure


Jurassic Park and Rashomon



Formal Analysis


Rules of the Game and The Sixth Sense



Authorship


The Searchers and Jungle Fever



Genres


Sin City and Gunfight at the OK Corral



Series, Sequels, and Remakes


Goldfinger and King Kong 1933 and 2005



Actors and Stars


Morocco and Dirty Harry



Audiences and Reception


A Woman of Paris and The Crying Game



Film and the Other Arts


Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Nosferatu



Film and its Relation to Radio and Television


Richard Diamond, Private Detective, Peter Gunn, and Victor/Victoria



Realism and Theories of Film


The Battleship Potemkin and Umberto D



Gender and Sexuality


The Silence of the Lambs and American Gigolo



Race


Out of the Past, LA Confidential, and Boyz N the Hood



Class


Pretty Woman and The People Under the Stairs



Citizen Kane: An Analysis


Citizen Kane



Globalization, Digitalization, Convergence: Current Trends


The Matrix


Glossary


Index