The Film Cultures Reader
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"Film Cultures Reader" brings together key writings on contemporary cinema. It focuses on film as a social and cultural practice, and on the relationship between cinema and popular culture.The book is divided into six thematic sections: understanding film; technology; film industries; meanings and pleasures; identities; audiences; consumption. It also provides resource information.
Contents:
Woollacott Texts and their readings 2. Annette Kuhn Women's genres 3. Judith Mayne Paradoxes of Spectatorship 4. Janet Staiger Reception studies in Film and Television Part 2: Technologies 5. Edward Buscombe Sound and colour 6. Steve Neale Colour and film aesthetics 7. Richard Dyer Lighting for whiteness 8. Gianluca Sergi A cry in the dark: the role of post-classical filmm sound 9. Stephen Prince True Lies: perceptual realism, digital images and film theory 10. Barbara Creed The cyberstar: digital pleasures and the end of the Unconscious Part 3: Industries 11. Tom O'Regan A National Cinema 12. John Hill British cinema as a national cinema: Production, audience and representation 13. Stepehen Teo Postmodernism and the end of Hong Kong cinema 14. Thomas Schatz The new Hollywood 15. Tino Balio 'A major presence in all the world's important markets': the globalisation of Hollywood in the 1990s Part 4: Meanings and pleasures 16. Richard Dyer Monroe and Sexuality: Desirability 17. P. David Marshall The cinematic apparatus and the construction of the film celebrity 18. Jane Feuer Spectators and spectacles 19. Stella Bruzzi Desire and the