The most up-to-date critical guide available, Film Studies: Critical Approaches covers all the significant theories, debates, and approaches to the subject. A team of international experts provides a clear and comprehensive overview of all the major theoretical and critical approaches involved in film analysis, including detailed coverage of established critical traditions--such as semiotics, feminism, and psychoanalysis--as well as important new areas of study such as film audiences and reception, queer theory, and identity politics. Chapter summaries and further reading lists help students to assimilate the material. Ideal for courses in film criticism and textual analysis, Film Studies: Critical Approaches guides students through the maze of theory to the heart of the subject.

• Introduction


• PART ONE. CRITICAL APPROACHES


• 1: Richard Dyer: Introduction to Film Studies


• STUDYING THE FILM TEXT


• 2: Robert Phillip Kolker: The Film Text and Film Form


• Readings:


• Written on the Wind


• Citizen Kane


• 3: Paul McDonald: Film Acting


• 4: Pamela Church Gibson: Film Costume


• 5: Claudia Gorbman: Film Music


• THE FILM TEXT: THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENTS


• 6: Anthony Easthope: Classic Film Theory and Semiotics


• 7: Ian Christie: Formalism and Neo-formalism


• Reading: `Poetry and Prose in Cinema'


• 8: Robert B. Ray: Impressionism, Surrealism, and Film Theory


• 9: Barbara Creed: Film and Psychoanalysis


• 10: Peter Brunette: Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction


• 11: John Hill: Film and Postmodernism


• FILM TEXT AND CONTEXT: GENDER, IDEOLOGY, AND IDENTITIES


• 12: Chuck Kleinhans: Marxism and Film


• Reading: `The Political Thriller Debate'


• 13: Patricia White: Feminism and Film


• Readings:


• Rebecca


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• 14: Anneke Smelik: Gay and Lesbian Criticism


• 15: Alexander Doty: Queer Theory


• 16: Laura Kipnis: Pornography


• 17: Robyn Wiegman: Race, Ethnicity, and Film


• 18: Rey Chow: Film and Cultural Identity


• FILM TEXT AND CONTEXT: CULTURE, HISTORY, AND RECEPTION


• 19: Dudley Andrew: Film and History


• 20: Andrew Tudor: Sociology and Film


• 21: Graeme Turner: Cultural Studies and Film


• 22: Jostein Gripsrud: Film Audiences


• 23: Noel King: Hermeneutics, Reception Aesthetics, and Film Interpretation

EDITORS
John Hill is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Media and Performance Studies at the University of Ulster at Coleraine
Pamela Church Gibson is a Senior Lecturer in Contextual and Cultural Studies at the London College of Fashion, a constituent college of the London Institute
ADVISORY BOARD
Richard Dyer is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Warwick
E. Ann Kaplan teaches in the Department of English at the Humanities Institute at Stony Brook, New York
Paul Willemen is Professor, Department of Media Studies, Napier University, Edinburgh