Thinking about Movies : Watching, Questioning, Enjoying

Lehman, Peter, Luhr, William

ISBN 10: 063123358X / ISBN 13: 9780631233589

Published by Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 1991

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Thinking about Movies : Watching, Questioning, Enjoying
• Publisher: Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 063123358X
• ISBN 13: 9780631233589
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Guiding students and movie lovers through the building blocks required to watch movies critically and analytically, Thinking About Movies 2nd edition offers an intelligent and lively introduction to the ways movies are constructed, achieve their effect, and convey their powerful messages.

• Provides a comprehensive guide for students and movie lovers to watching movies critically and analytically.
  
• Introduces 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.
  
• Includes discussion of a diverse selection of films, from Citizen Kane to The Sixth Sense.
  
• Extensively illustrated throughout.
  
• Material has been fully revised and re–designed for this second edition.

Thinking About Movies, 2nd edition is accompanied by a website at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/lehman featuring resources for both academics and students.

About the Author

Peter Lehman is Director of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Program at Arizona State University. He is author of Running Scared: Masculinity and the Representation of the Male Body (1993), and editor of Defining Cinema (1997) and Masculinity: Bodies, Movies, Culture (2001). He is former president of the Society for Cinema Studies.

William Luhr is Professor of English at Saint Peter′s College. Among other works, he is author of Raymond Chandler and Film, Second Edition (1991), and editor of World Cinema since 1945 (1987) and The Maltese Falcon: John Huston, Director (1995). He is Co–Chair of the Columbia University Seminar on Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation.