From Antz to Titanic: Reinventing Film Analysis - Rilegato

Barker, Martin; Austin, Thomas

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ISBN 10: 0745315844 ISBN 13: 9780745315843

Casa editrice: Pluto Pr, 2000

Riassunto

Everybody analyses films. Ordinary viewers, chatting on the way home afterwards. Reviewers, telling us just enough to tempt or put off. Critics, ‘situating’ films for us. Moralists, hunting for the (harmful) message. So what exactly is it that film academics do that’s different?Martin Barker and Thomas Austin provide a jargon-free, accessible and student-friendly introduction to film analysis. They begin with a discussion about audience and a detailed case-study on four conflicting analyses of Capra’s It’s A Wonderful Life. The authors examine a range of popular Hollywood films in a variety of genres, including Titanic, Deep Impact, Sleepless in Seattle, The Lion King, Starship Troopers and The Usual Suspects, and provide vivid demonstrations of what can and can’t be achieved with close textual analysis. The book ends by proposing a list of measures for assessing the adequacy of film analyses: measures intended to lay the basis of a way of doing film analysis which goes beyond theoretically-predetermined and often obscurantist assertions.Explicitly rejecting much of the theoretical baggage that dogs contemporary film analysis, Barker and Austin strip the subject down to its bare essentials. The result is a provocative and timely reexamination of many of the basic tenets in film theory and analysis.

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L'autore:

Martin Barker is Reader in Media Studies at Sussex University. He is the author of numerous books and articles on media studies and popular culture. Thomas Austin lectures in film studies at Sussex University. He is the author of Hollywood: Hype and Audiences, forthcoming from Manchester University Press.

Contenuti:

Acknowledgements 1. Films, Audiences and Analyses 2. Formalism and the Implied Audience 3. Usual Suspects, Unusual Devices 4. An Ant With Ideas 5. Titanic: A Knight To Remember 6. In the Jungle, the Mighty Jungle 7. Like Food Processors, But Nasty 8. Dear Meg, Dearest Tom 9. A Very Deep Impact (with Thomas Austin) 10. Showing That It Is What It Is Bibliography

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Pluto Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0745315844
• ISBN 13: 9780745315843
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 222