Film Analysis: A Norton Reader (Second Edition)
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| Rating | : | 4.46 (875 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 039392324X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 1152 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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Fifty essays on fifty filmsby a who’s-who of film studies.Film Analysis offers concise analyses of fifty diverse and historically significant filmseach written exclusively for the text by a leading scholar. The Second Edition includes six new essays, a new, detailed guide to writing film analysis, and an extensive, up-to-date glossary of critical film terms.. Written with the undergraduate in mind, the essays are clear, readable, and great models for students to follow in helping
-- Michael Wood, Film Quarterly (review of first edition). I have just read, slowly and with great pleasure, straight through and in sequence, the Norton reader on film analysis, and this is a report on the experience. the great theme of the book, it seems to me when I try to see it all together, is not the quest for meaning or the avoidance of essentialism It is what we might think of as an unsettled theory, the question of what is real in a film, what is ordinary, what 'escape' means, and what work our fantasies are doing in the cinema
Imperial Imagination (2007) and American Documentary Film: Projecting the Nation (2011). He has co-edited, with Karin Littau, Cinematicity in Media History (2013).R. He is the author of High Technè: Art and Technology from the Machine Aesthetic to the Posthuman (1999), and co-editor of Strategies for Theory: From Marx to Madonna (2003) and Consumption in an Age of Information (2005).. L. He is the author of Facing the Pacific: Polynesia and the U.S. Rutsky (Ph.D., University of
Actually enjoyed reading it abferro Was a textbook for one of my classes. Actually enjoyed reading it. Interesting.. Detailed and Insightful. A good read for any film enthusiast. Contains very detailed essays for about 50, or so, significant films, from the dawn of film making to all the way to today. Also contains a "How to understand or write a film analysis" and a "Glossary of critical terms," as well as the index. Good Stuff, but it is a hefty read, so heads up.. "Five Stars" according to Patricia. great condition