Introduction to Film Studies by Jill Nelmes

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By Jill Nelmes

Introduction to movie Studies is a complete textbook for college students of cinema.

This thoroughly revised and up-to-date 5th version courses scholars during the key matters and ideas in movie reviews, lines the historic improvement of movie and introduces many of the worlds key nationwide cinemas. more than a few theories and theorists are offered from Formalism to Feminism, from Eisenstein to Deleuze. every one bankruptcy is written via an issue expert, together with new authors for the 5th version. quite a lot of motion pictures are analysed and mentioned. it really is lavishly illustrated with 150 movie stills and construction photographs, in complete color all through. Reviewed generally via academics within the box and with a foreword by means of Bill Nichols, will probably be crucial interpreting for any introductory scholar of movie and media reports or the visible arts worldwide.

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Individual chapters include: the economic Contexts of movie creation · movie and expertise · attending to the larger · photograph movie shape and Narrative · Spectator, viewers and reaction · Cinematic authorship and the movie auteur · Stardom and Hollywood Cinema · style, concept and Hollywood Cinema The Documentary shape · The Language of Animation · Gender and picture · Lesbian and homosexual Cinema · Spectacle, Stereotypes and movies of the African Diaspora · British Cinema · Indian Cinema · Latin American Cinema · Soviet Montage Cinema of the Nineteen Twenties

Contributors: Linda Craig, Lalitha Gopalan, Terri Francis, Chris Jones, Mark Joyce, Searle Kochberg, Lawrence Napper, Jill Nelmes, Patrick Phillips, Suzanne Speidel, Paul Ward, Paul Watson, Paul Wells and William Wittington

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