Reinventing Film Studies - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0340677236 ISBN 13: 9780340677230

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury USA Academic, 2000

Riassunto

This anthology of specially-commissioned essays introduces the film student to some of the central questions and debates that have concerned the development of film studies. Written by a team of noted scholars, the collection focuses on issues that confront us today, assessing the impact on the discipline of recent technological, cultural, and social developments; challenging received thinking, and reinventing film studies for the post-film era. In each of five thematic sections, early essays open up key problems, issues, and debates while a case study offers concrete examples of what various approaches can deliver. Covering all major topics and fully up-to-date, this reader will be a key text for all serious undergraduate and graduate students who want to understand where film is going in its second century.

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Recensione:

In this rich collection, a large and varied group of prominent scholars covers the state of the field in Film Studies. The book presents the reader with a dynamic tissue of discussions, positions and proposals that are methodological, theoretical, historiographic, aesthetic, and political. This is the kind of constellation that originally energized the relatively young discipline of Film Studies, but even in its references to the history of film scholarship there is nothing nostalgic about Reinventing Film Studies. Its writers are some of the most innovative and influential figures in the field, and their accounts of the present are fundamentally aimed at mapping future directions. Their contributions are at once authoritative, rigorous and polemical. This volume will be a central reference point for anyone concerned with film and media scholarship for years to come. --Professor Philip Rosen, Department of Modern Cultu
At this moment of technological change, film studies is entering an exciting new phase in which it faces many challenges, not least the demand that it reinvent itself once again. This stimulating anthology will play an indispensable part in that process, and I have no hesitation in recommending it. --Pam Cook, Professor of European Film and Media, Un
I found the articles to be informative and theoretically sophisticated. I would highly recommend this anthology to both students and scholars interested in exploring theoretical frameworks which are 'really useful' in analysing film today. --Film-Philosophy

L'autore:

Christine Gledhill is Professor in Film Studies, at the University of Sunderland, UK.

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• Editore: Bloomsbury USA Academic
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0340677236
• ISBN 13: 9780340677230
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Numero di pagine: 464
• Redattore: Gledhill Christine, Williams Linda