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Thinking about Movies
Peter Lehman, William Luhr
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Fotografie, Film, Video, TV
Beschreibung
A complete introduction to analyzing and enjoying a wide variety of movies, for film students and movie lovers alike Thinking About Movies: Watching, Questioning, Enjoying, Fourth Edition is a thorough overview of movie analysis designed to enlighten both students and enthusiasts, and heighten their enjoyment of films. Readers will delve into the process of thinking about movies critically and analytically, and find how doing so can greatly enhance the pleasure of watching movies. Divided roughly into two parts, the book addresses film studies within the context of the dynamics of cinema, before moving on to a broader analysis of the relationship of films to the larger social, cultural, and industrial issues informing them. This updated fourth edition includes an entirely new section devoted to a complete analysis of the film adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, along with many in-depth discussions of important films such as Citizen Kane and Silence of the Lambs. The chapter on television integrates a major expansion distinguishing between television in the digital era of the convergence of the entertainment and technology industries in comparison to the era of broadcast analogue television. The final chapter places film within the current context of digital culture, globalization, and the powerful rise of China in film production and exhibition. The authors clearly present various methodologies for analyzing movies and illustrate them with detailed examples and images from a wide range of films from cult classics to big-budget, award-winning movies. This helps viewers see new things in movies and also better understand and explain why they like some better than others. Thinking About Movies: Watching, Questioning, Enjoying, Fourth Edition is ideal for film students immersed in the study of this important, contemporary medium and art form as well as students and readers who have never taken a class on cinema before.
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"This thoroughly revised and up-to-date edition of Lehman's and Luhr's celebrated textbook will continue to inform and inspire new generations of students and researchers of film and media. It combines a commendable clarity of argument with incisive and innovative close analysis of key illustrative examples. The book covers a wide range of key aspects of film and media studies (narrative, analysis, authorship, stars, genres, seriality or reception) and key theoretical issues and frameworks. Every student of film and media should read this book."
--Professor Santiago Fouz-Hernández, Durham University, UK
"This incomparable introductory film textbook is one that I truly want to read and continue reading--even as a film professor who has used a number of the most lauded texts on the market over my many years of teaching. In this intelligently structured book, every chapter invites film students and professors, alike, to embark on an engagingly coherent yet open-ended journey through the fundamental roads of film aesthetics, form, style, history, and--quite crucially--through the unpredictable avenues of film's mediating role in representing and responding to varied historical, cultural, and industrial contexts. Posing many honest, and often, unanswerable questions--yet within strongly articulated and informative frameworks for analysis--all chapters place fascinating films in dialogue with each other and encourage readers, at whatever level, to consider and reconsider their responses to and understanding of the traditional cinema and its emerging iterations in the digital age."
--Cynthia Lucia, Rider University, US and Cineaste
"Filled with extremely helpful images and delightfully detailed, insightful analyses of films and other media, Thinking About Movies shows two of our most eminent film scholars in excellent form. Besides its obvious use for introductory cinema studies courses, this engaging, highly readable text could also prove valuable in courses dedicated to close textual analysis, the politics of representation, and film theory, and should have considerable interest for general readers as well. This new edition explores issues of new technology, globalization and more with the same thoughtfulness and erudition as the rest of the book. An impressive achievement, designed and certain to provoke healthy discussion."
--David Lugowski, Manhattanville College, US
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Kulturwissenschaften, Cultural Studies, Film Theory, Filmtheorie