Film and Television Analysis: An Introduction to Methods, Theories, and Approaches - Softcover

Benshoff, Harry M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415674816 ISBN 13: 9780415674812

Verlag: Routledge, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

Film and Television Analysis is especially designed to introduce undergraduate students to the most important qualitative methodologies used to study film and television.

The methodologies covered include:

• ideological analysis
• auteur theory
• genre theory
• semiotics and structuralism
• psychoanalysis and apparatus theory
• feminism
• postmodernism
• cultural studies (including reception and audience studies)
• contemporary approaches to race, nation, gender, and sexuality.

With each chapter focusing on a distinct methodology, students are introduced to the historical developments of each approach, along with its vocabulary, significant scholars, key concepts and case studies.

Other features include:

• Over 120 color images throughout
• Questions for discussion at the end of each chapter
• Suggestions for further reading
• A glossary of key terms.

Written in a reader-friendly manner Film and Television Analysis is a vital textbook for students encountering these concepts for the first time.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Harry M. Benshoff is a Professor of Media Arts at the University of North Texas. He is the editor of A Companion to the Horror Film (2014) and co-author of the best-selling textbook America on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality at the Movies (2009).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0415674816
• ISBN 13: 9780415674812
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 318
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