Understanding film theory / Christine Etherington-Wright and Ruth Doughty

Author:: Etherington-Wright, Christine, 1950-
Published:: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Physical Description:: ix, 289 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Additional Creators:: Doughty, Ruth

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Machine generated contents note: 1.Auteur Theory -- Case studies: Alfred Hitchcock and Guillermo del Toro -- 2.Genre Theory -- Case studies: The Swashbuckler and the Musical -- 3.Formalism -- Case study: Lola Rennt/Run Lola Run (Tom Tykwer, 1998) -- 4.Structuralism and Post-structuralism -- Case study: Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968) -- 5.Marxism -- Case study: Latin America: Third Cinema and Imperfect Cinema -- 6.Realism -- Case study: Dogme 95 -- 7.Postmodernism -- Case study: Moulin Rouge! (Baz Luhrmann, 2001) -- 8.Psychoanalysis -- Case study: Oldboy (Chan-Wook Park, 2003) -- 9.Feminism -- Case study: Mamma Mia! (Phyllida Lloyd, 2008) -- 10.Masculinity -- Case study: Christian Bale -- 11.Queer Theory -- Case study: Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, 2005) -- 12.Audience Research and Reception -- Case study: Violence -- 13.Stars -- Case studies: Amitabh Bachchan and Dame Judi Dench -- 14.Race and Ethnicity -- Case study: Rabbit-Proof Fence (Philip Noyce, 2002) -- 15.Postcolonial and Transnational Cinemas -- Case study: Avatar (James Cameron, 2009).

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9780230217102 (hardback)
0230217109 (hardback)
9780230217119 (pbk.)
0230217117 (pbk.)

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Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

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