The Film Cultures Reader brings together key writings on contemporary cinema by leading authors in cinema and cultural studies. It focuses on film as a social and cultural practice, and on the relationship between cinema and popular culture. The Reader is divided into six thematic sections:
- understanding film
 - technology
 - film Industries
 - meanings and pleasures
 - identities
 - audiences
 - consumption.
 
The perfect companion to Film as Social Practics, key features of the Reader include the editor's introduction to each thematic section, the focus on contemporary popular cinema and a comprehensive bibliography and resource information.
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                              This companion reader to Film as Social Practice brings together key writings on contemporary cinema, exploring film as a social and cultural phenomenon.
                                  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 costume film: Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Age of Innocence, The Piano  20. Tania Modleski  The Terror of Pleasure: the contemporary horror film and postmodern theory 21. Jim Collins  Genericity in the 90s: Eclectic irony and the new sincerity Part 5: Identities  22. Yvonne Tasker Action heroines in the 1980s: the limits of 'musculinity' 23. Sabrina Barton  Your Self Storage: Female investigation and male performativity in the woman's psychothriller 24. Chris Straayer  The Hypothetical Lesbian Heroine in Narrative Feature Film 25. Susan Jeffords  Can Masculinity be Terminated? 26. Issac Julien and Kobena Mercer  De Margin and De Centre 27. Ella Shohart and Robert Stam  The imperial imaginary Part 6: Audiences and Consumption  28. Justin Wyatt  High Concept and market research: Movie marketing by the numbers 29. Miriam Hansen  Charmeleon and Catalyst: The cinema as an alternative public sphere 30. Jackie Stacey  Hollywood Cinema - the great escape 31. Jacqueline Bobo  Watching The Color Purple : Two Interviews 32. Mark Jancovich  'A Real Shocker': authenticity, genre and the struggle for distinction
                                
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ISBN
                    
            9780415252812
      
                  Publisert
                     2001-12-13 
                  Utgiver
                    Taylor & Francis Ltd
                  Vekt
                     1170 gr
                  Høyde
                     246 mm
                  Bredde
                     174 mm
                  Aldersnivå
                     UU, G, P, UP, 05, 01, 06
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  Product language
              Engelsk
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  Product format
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          Antall sider
                     544
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