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

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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