Literature

An Introduction to Film Studies

Management No. BFM011993

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Contents: CONTENTS Notes on contributors = xi Acknowledgements = xiii 1 Introduction / JILL NELMES = 1 PART ONE : INSTITUTIONS, AUDIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY 2 Cinema as institution / SEARLE KOCHBERG = 7 3 Film : the place where art and technology meet / CHRIS WEBSTER = 61 PART TWO : APPROACHES TO STUDYING FILM TEXTS 4 Film form and narrative / ALLAN ROWE = 87 5 Genre, star and auteur : an approach to Hollywood cinema / PATRICK PHILLIPS = 121 PART THREE : GENRE FORMS : REALISM AND ILLUSION 6 The documentary form : personal and social 'realities' / PAUL WELLS = 167 7 Animation : forms and meanings / PAUL WELLS = 193 PART FOUR : REPRESENTATION OF GENDER AND SEXUALITY 8 Women and film / JILL NELMES = 221 9 Lesbian and gay cinema / CHRIS JONES = 257 PART FIVE : NATIONAL CINEMAS 10 British cinema : representing the nation / LEZ COOKE = 293 11 The Soviet montage cinema of the 1920s / MARK JOYCE = 329 12 An introduction to Indian cinema / ASHA KASBEKAR = 365 13 New German Cinema / JULIA KNIGHT = 393 Glossary of key terms = 429 Bibliography = 439 Index = 451