FROM ANTZ TO TITANIC: REINVENTING FILM ANALYSIS

Barker, Martin & Austin, Thomas

ISBN 10: 0745315798 / ISBN 13: 9780745315799

Edité par Pluto Press, London, 2000

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222pp.

N° de réf. du vendeur 094654

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: FROM ANTZ TO TITANIC: REINVENTING FILM ANALYSIS
• Éditeur: Pluto Press, London
• Date de parution: 2000
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0745315798
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780745315799
• Reliure: Soft cover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Media & Film

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Synopsis

Everybody analyses films. Ordinary viewers, chatting on the way home afterwards. Reviewers, telling us just enough to tempt or put off. Critics, 'situating' films for us. Moralists, hunting for the (harmful) message. So what exactly is it that film academics do that's different?Martin Barker and Thomas Austin provide a jargon-free, accessible and student-friendly introduction to film analysis. They begin with a discussion about audience and a detailed case-study on four conflicting analyses of Capra's It's A Wonderful Life. The authors examine a range of popular Hollywood films in a variety of genres, including Titanic, Deep Impact, Sleepless in Seattle, The Lion King, Starship Troopers and The Usual Suspects, and provide vivid demonstrations of what can and can't be achieved with close textual analysis. The book ends by proposing a list of measures for assessing the adequacy of film analyses: measures intended to lay the basis of a way of doing film analysis which goes beyond theoretically-predetermined and often obscurantist assertions.Explicitly rejecting much of the theoretical baggage that dogs contemporary film analysis, Barker and Austin strip the subject down to its bare essentials. The result is a provocative and timely reexamination of many of the basic tenets in film theory and analysis.

À propos de l?auteur

Dr. David M. Berry is a lecturer in the Media and Communication department at the University of Swansea. He researches the philosophy of technology, medium theory, digital media and the social and political implications of the information society.