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Film as social practice / Graeme Turner.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in culture and communicationPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1999Edition: Third editionDescription: xviii, 221 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415215943
  • 9780415215947
  • 0415215951
  • 9780415215954
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.2343 21
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.S6 T87 1999
Contents:
1. The feature film industry -- 2. From seventh art to social practice -- a history of film studies -- 3. Film languages -- 4. Film narrative -- 5. Film audiences -- 6. Film, culture, and ideology -- 7. Applications.
Summary: "Explores cinema from a social and cultural perspective, discussing film as a cultural industry and examining how issues of gender, class and ethnicity impact upon representation and spectatorship. This third edition of the best-selling work has been updated to include: analysis of recent films such as Scream 2, Lethal Weapon 4, and The Wedding Singer; an expanded section on feminist approaches to film; new material on narrative approaches, spectatorship, and psychoanalytic approaches; and increased focus on the industry in Hollywood and the rise of multiplexes."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The feature film industry -- 2. From seventh art to social practice -- a history of film studies -- 3. Film languages -- 4. Film narrative -- 5. Film audiences -- 6. Film, culture, and ideology -- 7. Applications.

"Explores cinema from a social and cultural perspective, discussing film as a cultural industry and examining how issues of gender, class and ethnicity impact upon representation and spectatorship. This third edition of the best-selling work has been updated to include: analysis of recent films such as Scream 2, Lethal Weapon 4, and The Wedding Singer; an expanded section on feminist approaches to film; new material on narrative approaches, spectatorship, and psychoanalytic approaches; and increased focus on the industry in Hollywood and the rise of multiplexes."--Publisher description.

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