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    The Oxford guide to film studies / edited by John Hill and Pamela Church Gibson ; consultant editors, Richard Dyer, E. Ann Kaplan, Paul Willemen.

    • Title:The Oxford guide to film studies / edited by John Hill and Pamela Church Gibson ; consultant editors, Richard Dyer, E. Ann Kaplan, Paul Willemen.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Hill, John (W. John)
      Gibson, Pamela Church.
    • Published/Created:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Film criticism.
      Motion pictures.
    • Description:xxii, 624 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:0198711158 (hardcover)
      0198711247 (pbk.)
    • Contents:General Introduction / John Hill
      Pt. 1. Critical Approaches
      1. Introduction to film studies / Richard Dyer
      Studying the film text
      2. film text and film form / Robert P. Kolker
      Reading: Written on the Wind / Robin Wood
      Reading: Citizen Kane / Peter Wollen
      3. Film acting / Paul McDonald
      4. Film costume / Pamela Church Gibson
      5. Film music / Claudia Gorbman
      film text: theoretical frameworks
      6. Classic film theory and semiotics / Antony Easthope
      7. Formalism and neo-formalism / Ian Christie
      Reading: Poetry and prose in cinema / Viktor Shklovsky
      8. Impressionism, surrealism, and film theory / Robert B. Ray
      9. Film and psychoanalysis / Barbara Creed
      10. Post-structuralism and deconstruction / Peter Brunette
      11. Film and postmodernism / John Hill
      Film text and context: gender, ideology, and identities
      12. Marxism and film / Chuck Kleinhans
      Reading: The political thriller debate / John Hill
      13. Feminism and film / Patricia White
      Readings Rebecca / Mary Ann Doane
      Reading: Rebecca / Tania Modleski
      14. Gay and lesbian criticism / Anneke Smelik
      15. Queer theory / Alexander Doty
      16. Pornography / Laura Kipnis
      17. Race, ethnicity, and film / Robyn Wiegman
      18. Film and cultural identity / Rey Chow
      Film text and context: culture, history, and reception
      19. Film and history / Dudley Andrew
      20. Sociology and film / Andrew Tudor
      21. Cultural studies and film / Graeme Turner
      22. Film audiences / Jostein Gripsrud
      23. Hermeneutics, reception aesthetics, and film interpretation / Noel King
      Pt. 2. American Cinema and Hollywood: Critical Approaches
      American cinema: history, industry, and interpretation
      1. American cinema and film history / John Belton
      2. History and cinema technology / Duncan Petrie
      3. Hollywood as industry / Douglas Gomery
      4. Early American film / Tom Gunning
      5. Classical Hollywood film and melodrama / E. Ann Kaplan
      Reading: Casablanca / Richard Maltby
      Reading: Casablanca / Rick Altman
      6. Post-classical Hollywood / Peter Kramer
      Critical concepts
      7. Authorship and Hollywood / Stephen Crofts
      Reading: John Ford / Peter Wollen
      8. Genre and Hollywood / Tom Ryall
      Reading: Body Genres / Linda Williams
      9. star system and Hollywood / Jeremy G. Butler
      Politics and society
      10. Hollywood film and society / Douglas Kellner
      Reading: Hollywood and ideology / Robert B. Ray
      11. Film policy: Hollywood and beyond / Albert Moran
      12. Hollywood and the world / Toby Miller
      Pt. 3. World Cinema: Critical Approaches
      Redefining cinema: International and avant-garde alternatives
      1. Concepts of national cinema / Stephen Crofts
      2. Modernism and the avant-gardes / Murray Smith
      3. Realism, modernism, and post-colonial theory / Ashish Rajadhyaksha
      Redefining cinema: other genres
      4. documentary / John Izod and Richard Kilborn
      5. animated film / Michael O'Pray
      European cinema
      6. Issues in European cinema / Ginette Vincendeau
      Case-Studies: Movements, Moments, and Filmmakers
      7. avant-gardes and European cinema before 1930 / Ian Christie
      8. Italian post-war cinema and Neo-Realism / Simona Monticelli
      9. French Nouvelle Vague / Jilt Forbes
      10. New German Cinema / Ulrike Sieglohr
      11. East Central European cinema / Daniel J. Goulding
      12. European film policy and the response to Hollywood / Armand Mattelart
      13. Directors and stars
      (a). Jean Renoir / Keith Reader
      (b). Ingmar Bergman / Chris Darke
      (c). Chantal Akerman / Cathy Fowler
      (d). Pedro Almodovar / Jose Arroyo
      (e). Luc Besson / Susan Hayward
      (f). Brigitte Bardot / Ginette Vincendeau
      Angiophone national cinemas
      Case-Studies
      14. British cinema / Andrew Higson
      15. Ireland and cinema / Martin McLoone
      16. Australian cinema / Elizabeth Jacka
      17. Canadian cinema / Will Straw
      World cinema
      18. Issues in world cinema / Wimal Dissanayake
      Case-Studies: Cinemas of the World
      19. Indian cinema / Ashish Rajadhyaksha
      Reading: Popular Hindi cinema / Rosle Thomas
      20. Chinese cinema / Berenice Reynaud
      21. Hong Kong cinema
      a. Discovery and pre-discovery / Stephen Teo
      b. China and 1997 / N. K. Leung
      22. Taiwanese New Cinema / Kuan-Hsing Chen
      23. Japanese cinema / Freda Freiberg
      24. African cinema / N. Frank Ukadike
      Reading: Hyenas / Richard Porton
      25. South American cinema / Julianne Burton-Carvajal
      Redefining cinema: film in a changing age
      26. Film and changing technologies / Laura Kipnis
      27. Film and television / John Hill.
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