Film as Social Practice

<p>This fourth edition of our bestselling classic 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>