Thinking About Movies 3e: Watching, Questioning, Enjoying - Softcover

Lehman, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1405154039 ISBN 13: 9781405154031

Publisher: John Wiley &Sons, 2008

Synopsis

Thinking About Movies, Third Edition is a comprehensive guide for students and movie lovers who want to learn how to watch movies critically and analytically. Intended for the beginner, the text offers the critical building blocks required to understand film as an important narrative and cultural form. Guides readers through basic approaches to film analysis such as authorship, genre, race, class, gender, film theory, audience, and reception Updated to include discussion of a diverse selection of classic and recent films, from Citizen Kane and Murder, My Sweet to Crash and King Kong Features new coverage of important current trends in the industry, and recent developments in film theory and criticism Accompanied by a website at www.blackwellpublishing.com/lehman featuring resources for both academics and students

About this title

About the Author

Peter Lehman is Director of the Center for Film, Media and Popular Culture at Arizona State University, Tempe. He is author of Roy Orbison: The Invention of an Alternative Rock Masculinity (2003) and Running Scared: Masculinity and the Representation of the Male Body, New Edition (2007), and editor of Pornography: Film and Culture (2006). He is former president of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. William Luhr is Professor of English at Saint Peter's College. Among other works, he is author of Raymond Chandler and Film (2nd edn., 1991), editor The Maltese Falcon: John Huston, Director (1995), and co-editor of Screening Genders (2008). He is Co-Chair of the Columbia University Seminar on Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation.

From the Back Cover

Thinking about Movies, third edition, is a comprehensive introduction for students and movie lovers who want to learn how to watch movies critically and analytically. Intended for the beginner, the text offers the crucial building blocks required to understand film as an important narrative and cultural form.

Guiding readers through basic film concepts narrative structure, authorship, genre, actors, and stars as well as more complex analyses of race, class, gender, film theory, audience, and reception, Thinking about Movies offers an intelligent and lively introduction to the ways in which movies are constructed, achieve their effect, and convey their powerful messages. This third edition has been fully revised and updated to cover new developments in filmmaking, including the powerful impact of globalization, new technology, and the convergence of the powerful entertainment and technology industries. It also discusses recent movie releases including the emerging trend of big-budget fantasy films being produced in New Zealand, like King Kong and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and the proliferation of elaborate multi-character narratives, like Crash and Syriana.

Including extensive illustrations and discussions of a diverse selection of important films, from Citizen Kane to Sin City, this is the ideal textbook to get students thinking about this important medium. The text is accompanied by a website at www.blackwellpublishing.com/lehman, featuring resources for both academics and students.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley &Sons
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1405154039
• ISBN 13: 9781405154031
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 456