Film as Social Practice (Studies in Culture and Communication)

Type

Book

Authors

Graeme Turner

ISBN 10

0415092728

ISBN 13

9780415092722

Tags

Performing Arts, History & Criticism, Theory, Criticism & Theory, Social Sciences, Film & Television

Description

Going beyond literary preoccupations, this examines film as a social practice, its production and its consumption, its pleasures and its meanings. Contemporary perspectives on the cinema, including theories of structuralism, marxism and feminism, are explained with freshness and clarity, and their applications are tested against classics of popular film - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Desperately Seeking Susan, and many others. - from Amzon

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