Studying Contemporary American Film: A Guide to Movie Analysis

by Warren Buckland and Thomas Elsaesser

Book Overview

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"