Film as Social Practice

<p>This fourth edition of our bestselling text has been comprehensively updated and revised to include contemporary film analysis and recent films.</p><p>With a focus on contemporary popular cinema and examples from Classical Hollywood, Graeme Turner examines the social and cultural aspects of film from audiences and ideologies to exhibition and technology.</p><p>This fourth edition now includes:</p><ul> <li>new sections dealing with debates about spectacle and special effects </li> <li>an extended treatment of sound and its contribution to cinema</li> <li>film theory’s discussion of the representation of race and ethnicity</li> <li>a thorough update of individual film references</li> <li>a revised applications chapter that includes new contemporary examples</li> <li>new illustrations from contemporary popular cinema.</li> </ul><p>Students of film studies, film practice and film theory will find this a welcome addition to their degree course studies.</p> <p>List of Illustrations Acknowledgements General Editor's Preface Preface <strong>Introduction 1. The Feature Film Industry </strong>The Feature Film Today The Establishment of the Feature Film American Domination of the Feature Film Industry New Competitors, New Strategies, New Hollywood Spectacle Versus Narrative Suggestions for Further Work <strong>2. From Seventh Art to Social Practice: A History of Film Studies </strong>Early Aesthetic Approaches Realist Approaches Bazin Auteurs and Genres The Institutionalization of Film Studies Film as Social Practice Suggestions for Further Work <strong>3. Film Languages </strong>Culture and Language Film as a Signifying Practice The Signifying Systems Reading the Film Suggestions for Further Work <strong>4. Film Narrative </strong>The Universality of Story The Function of Narrative Structuralism and Narrative Codes and Conventions Genre Narrative and Narration Suggestions for Further Work <strong>5. Film Audiences </strong>Specifying the Audience Stars The Film Experience The Film Spectator and Psychoanalysis Audience Identification Desire and the Image Audiences, Texts and Meanings Cultural Identities Suggestions for Further Work <strong>6. Film, Culture and Ideology </strong>Film and National Culture A National Cinema: the Australian Revival Ideology in the Text Issues in Ideological Analysis Suggestions for Further Work <strong>7. Applications </strong>Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Desperately Seeking Susan Conclusion References Index</p>