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Interpreting Films

Author : Janet Staiger
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691216061
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Interpreting Films written by Janet Staiger and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employing a wide range of examples from Uncle Tom's Cabin and Birth of a Nation to Zelig and Personal Best, Janet Staiger argues that a historical examination of spectators' responses to films can make a valuable contribution to the history, criticism, and philosophy of cultural products. She maintains that as artifacts, films do not contain immanent meanings, that differences among interpretations have historical bases, and that these variations are due to social, political, and economic conditions as well as the viewers' constructed images of themselves. After proposing a theory of reception study, the author demonstrates its application mainly through analyzing the varying responses of audiences to certain films at specific moments in history. Staiger gives special attention to how questions of class, gender, sexual preference, race, and ethnicity enter into film viewers' interpretations. Her analysis reflects recent developments in post-structuralism, cognitive psychology, psychoanalysis, and cultural studies, and includes a discussion of current reader-response models in literary and film studies as well as an alternative approach for thinking about historical readers and spectators.

Interpreting Films

Author : Janet Staiger
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691006161
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Interpreting Films written by Janet Staiger and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1992-03-23 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political, and economic conditions as well as the viewers' constructed images of themselves. Alter proposing a theory of reception study, the author demonstrates its application mainly through analyzing the varying responses of audiences to certain films at specific moments in history. Staiger gives special attention to how questions of class, gender, sexual preference, race, and ethnicity enter into film viewers' interpretations. Her analysis reflects recent.

Interpreting Films

Author : Janet Staiger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780691047973
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (479 download)

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Download or read book Interpreting Films written by Janet Staiger and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political, and economic conditions as well as the viewers' constructed images of themselves. Alter proposing a theory of reception study, the author demonstrates its application mainly through analyzing the varying responses of audiences to certain films at specific moments in history. Staiger gives special attention to how questions of class, gender, sexual preference, race, and ethnicity enter into film viewers' interpretations. Her analysis reflects recent.

Viewing and Interpreting Films Otherwise

Author : Ahmadou Siendou Konaté
Publisher : Boucliers Publications
ISBN 13 : 2491557452
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Viewing and Interpreting Films Otherwise written by Ahmadou Siendou Konaté and published by Boucliers Publications. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents things to the reader in ways that are untraditional and different. Look is taken at the political import of the filmic productions at hand. Guiding questions will be, but are not limited to the following: why was such a film produced by a person like the producer? Does the film attain the political goal the politicalized viewer sees in it? These are the questions the author seeks to answer in the book.

Making Meaning

Author : David BORDWELL
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674028538
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Making Meaning written by David BORDWELL and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Bordwell's new book is at once a history of film criticism, an analysis of how critics interpret film, and a proposal for an alternative program for film studies. It is an anatomy of film criticism meant to reset the agenda for film scholarship. As such Making Meaning should be a landmark book, a focus for debate from which future film study will evolve. Bordwell systematically maps different strategies for interpreting films and making meaning, illustrating his points with a vast array of examples from Western film criticism. Following an introductory chapter that sets out the terms and scope of the argument, Bordwell goes on to show how critical institutions constrain and contain the very practices they promote, and how the interpretation of texts has become a central preoccupation of the humanities. He gives lucid accounts of the development of film criticism in France, Britain, and the United States since World War II; analyzes this development through two important types of criticism, thematic-explicatory and symptomatic; and shows that both types, usually seen as antithetical, in fact have much in common. These diverse and even warring schools of criticism share conventional, rhetorical, and problem-solving techniques--a point that has broad-ranging implications for the way critics practice their art. The book concludes with a survey of the alternatives to criticism based on interpretation and, finally, with the proposal that a historical poetics of cinema offers the most fruitful framework for film analysis.

Interpreting the Moving Image

Author : Noel Carroll
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521589703
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (897 download)

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Download or read book Interpreting the Moving Image written by Noel Carroll and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-05-28 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of film essays by the well-respected critic, Noël Carroll.

American History/American Film

Author : John E. O'Connor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474281907
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book American History/American Film written by John E. O'Connor and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pioneering work, sixteen historians analyse individual films for deeper insight into US institutions, values and lifestyles. Linking all of the essays is the belief that film holds much of value for the historian seeking to understand and interpret American history and culture. This title will be equally valuable for students and scholars in history using film for analysis as well as film students and scholars exploring the way social and historical circumstances are reflected and represented in film.

Identifying and Interpreting Incongruent Film Music

Author : David Ireland
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030005062
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Identifying and Interpreting Incongruent Film Music written by David Ireland and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-04 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the concept of incongruent film music, challenging the idea that this label only describes music that is inappropriate or misfitting for a film’s images and narrative. Defining incongruence as a lack of shared properties in the audiovisual relationship, this study examines various types of incongruence between a film and its music and considers the active role that it can play in the construction of a film’s meaning and influencing audience response. Synthesising findings from research in the psychology of music in multimedia, as well as from ideas sourced in semiotics, film music, and poststructuralist theory, this interdisciplinary book provides a holistic perspective that reflects the complexity of moments of film-music incongruence. With case studies including well-known films such as Gladiator and The Shawshank Redemption, this book combines scene analysis and empirical audience reception tests to emphasise the subjectivity, context-dependency, and multi-dimensionality inherent in identifying and interpreting incongruent film music.

Interpretation and Film Studies

Author : Phillip Novak
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030447391
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Interpretation and Film Studies written by Phillip Novak and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that the sustained interpretation of individual movies has, contrary to conventional wisdom, never been a major preoccupation of film studies—that, indeed, the field is marked by a dearth of effective, engaging, and enlightening critical analyses of single films. The book makes this case by surveying what has been written about four historically important and well-known movies (D. W. Griffith’s Way Down East, Marcel Carné’s Port of Shadows, Mike Nichols’s The Graduate, and Michelangelo Antonioni’s Red Desert), none of which has been the focus of sustained critical attention, and by exhaustively examining the kinds of work published in four influential film journals (Cinema Journal, Screen, Wide Angle, and Movie). The book goes on to argue for the value of the work of interpretation, illustrating this value through extended analyses of Roman Polanski’s Chinatown and Christopher Nolan’s Memento, both of which thematize interpretation. Novak demonstrates the causes and consequences of reading poorly and the importance of reading well.

Seeing Film and Reading Feminist Theology

Author : U. Vollmer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230606857
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Seeing Film and Reading Feminist Theology written by U. Vollmer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-09-03 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using feminist theory and examining films that describe women artists who see others through the lens of feminist theology, this book puts forward an original view of the act of seeing as an ethical activity - a gesture of respect for and belief in another person's visible and invisible sides, which guarantees the safekeeping of the Other's memory.

Translating Popular Film

Author : C. O'Sullivan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230317545
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Translating Popular Film written by C. O'Sullivan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-08-26 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ground-breaking study of the roles played by foreign languages in film and television and their relationship to translation. The book covers areas such as subtitling and the homogenising use of English, and asks what are the devices used to represent foreign languages on screen?

The Critical Practice of Film

Author : Elspeth Kydd
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0230345271
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book The Critical Practice of Film written by Elspeth Kydd and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Critical Practice of Film introduces film studies and production through the integration of criticism, theory and practice. Its approach is that of critical practice, a process that explores the integration and intersection between the critical analysis of films and the practical aspects of filmmaking. In other words, this book is both an introduction to the ways in which we watch films, as well as an introduction to how films are created. The more you know about how films are made, the more you can appreciate the artistry involved in a film. Author Elspeth kydd combines explorations of basic technical and aesthetic principles with extended analyses drawn from both classic and contemporary Hollywood and other world cinemas, including Battleship Potemkin (1927), Un Chien andalou (1929), Stagecoach (1939), Mildred Pierce (1945), Notorious (1946), Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), Breathless (1959), Memories of Underdevelopment (1968), Star Wars (1977), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988), The Matrix (1999), Amores Perros (2000), Gosford Park (2001) and The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–3). Also included is a range of exercises designed to stimulate critical and analytical thought and help to demystify the process of creative mediamaking. Assignments range in scale from simple storyboarding and narrative development exercises that may be explored with minimal technology, to more complex video projects that can be adapted to suit varying levels of technical skill. The Critical Practice of Film provides an accessible introduction to the theory and practice of film studies, integrating creative practice with critical and theoretical engagement to guide students towards an engaged form of creative expression and an active role as reviewer and critic. Beautifully presented, this ground-breaking text offers all students an integrated understanding of film criticism and production. Elspeth kydd is a Senior Lecturer in Film Studies and Video Production at the University of the West of England. She has taught, researched and published in film and television studies for nearly twenty years, as well as being an active documentary videomaker. This book developed from teaching integrated theory-practice film courses at universities in the US and UK.

Reframing the Past

Author : Mia E. M. Treacey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317273214
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Reframing the Past written by Mia E. M. Treacey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-26 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reframing the Past traces what historians have written about film and television from 1898 until the early 2000s. Mia Treacey argues that historical engagement with film and television should be reconceptualised as Screened History: an interdisciplinary, international field of research to incorporate and replace what has been known as ‘History and Film’. It draws from the fields of Film, Television and Cultural Studies to critically analyse key works and connect past scholarship with contemporary research. Reconsidered as Screened History, the works of Pierre Sorlin, Marc Ferro, John O’Connor, Robert Rosenstone and Robert Toplin are explored alongside lesser known but equally important contributions. This book identifies a number of common themes and ideas that have been explored by historians for decades: the use of history on film and television as a way to teach the past; the challenge of filmic and televisual history to more traditional historiography; and an ongoing battle to find an ‘appropriate’ historical way to engage with Film Studies and Theory. Screened History offers an approach to exploring History, Film and Television that allows room for future developments, while connecting them to a rich and diverse body of past scholarship. Combining a narrative of historical research on film and television over the past century with a reconceptualisation of the field as Screened History, Reframing the Past is essential reading both for established scholars of History and Film, Film History and other related disciplines, and to students new to the field.

Films Interpreting Children and Youth, 1944-1945

Author : Margaret Hampel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Films Interpreting Children and Youth, 1944-1945 written by Margaret Hampel and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Interpreting Films

Author : Janet Staiger
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691006161
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (61 download)

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Literature in Films & Media Studies (English) For B.A. (Sem.-6) According to NEP-2020

Author : R. Bansal
Publisher : SBPD Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 8119142373
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book Literature in Films & Media Studies (English) For B.A. (Sem.-6) According to NEP-2020 written by R. Bansal and published by SBPD Publishing House. This book was released on 2024-06-28 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: 1. An Explanation of James Monaco, ‘the Language of Film : Sings And Syntax’, In How To Read A Film : The World of Movies, Media And Multimedia 2. William Shakespeare’s : The Comedy of Errors, and Its Adaptation Angoor (1982 Film; Directed By Gulzar) 3. Khushwant Singh’s Train To Pakistan, and Its Adaptation Train To Pakistan (1998 Film; Directed By Pamela Rooks) 4. Rabindranath Tagore’s Kabuliwala and Its Adaptation Kabuliwala (1961 Film;Directed By Hemen Gupta) 5. William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, And Its Adaptation Maqbool (2003 Film; Directed By Vishal Bhardwaj) 6. Chetan Bhagat’s The 3 Mistakes of My Life, and Its Adaptation Kai Po Che (2013 Film; Directed By Abhishek Kapoor) 7. Script Writing 8. Dialogue Writing 9. Movie Review 10. Editing 11. Narration. Additional Information: The author of this book is R. Bansal.

Philosophy of the Film

Author : Ian Jarvie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135794650
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy of the Film written by Ian Jarvie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the overlap between film and philosophy in three distinct ways: epistemological issues in film-making and viewing; aesthetic theory and film; and film as a medium of philosophical expression.