Film and Television Analysis: An Introduction to Methods, Theories, and Approaches - Couverture souple

Benshoff, Harry M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0415674816 ISBN 13 : 9780415674812

Editeur : Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

Film and Television Analysis is especially designed to introduce undergraduate students to the most important qualitative methodologies used to study film and television.

The methodologies covered include:

• ideological analysis
• auteur theory
• genre theory
• semiotics and structuralism
• psychoanalysis and apparatus theory
• feminism
• postmodernism
• cultural studies (including reception and audience studies)
• contemporary approaches to race, nation, gender, and sexuality.

With each chapter focusing on a distinct methodology, students are introduced to the historical developments of each approach, along with its vocabulary, significant scholars, key concepts and case studies.

Other features include:

• Over 120 color images throughout
• Questions for discussion at the end of each chapter
• Suggestions for further reading
• A glossary of key terms.

Written in a reader-friendly manner Film and Television Analysis is a vital textbook for students encountering these concepts for the first time.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Harry M. Benshoff is a Professor of Media Arts at the University of North Texas. He is the editor of A Companion to the Horror Film (2014) and co-author of the best-selling textbook America on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality at the Movies (2009).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0415674816
• ISBN 13: 9780415674812
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 332
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible