Studying Contemporary American Film: A Guide to Movie Analysis

by Warren Buckland and Thomas Elsaesser

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This text presents the most appropriate theories and methods for analyzing contemporary America cinema. Using an innovative approach to writing about individual movies, each of the main chapters examines the assumptions behind one traditional theory of film (e.g. auteurism, narratology, psychoanalysis), distills a method of analysis from it, and then analyzes a contemporary American movie. The text then goes beyond traditional theory by analyzing...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0340762063

ISBN13:9780340762066

Release Date:March 2002

Publisher:Bloomsbury Academic

Length:320 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"

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