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Movies and Methods, Volume 2 (Paperback)
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The original Movies and Methods volume (1976) captured the dynamic
evolution of film theory and criticism into an important new
discipline, incorporating methods from structuralism, semiotics,
and feminist thought. Now there is again ferment in the field.
Movies and Methods, Volume II, captures the developments that have
given history and genre studies imaginative new models and
indicates how feminist, structuralist, and psychoanalytic
approaches to film have achieved fresh, valuable insights. In his
thoughtful introduction, Nichols provides a context for the
paradoxes that confront film studies today. He shows how shared
methods and approaches continue to stimulate much of the best
writing about film, points to common problems most critics and
theorists have tried to resolve, and describes the internal
contraditions that have restricted the usefulness of
post-structuralism. Mini-introductions place each essay in a larger
context and suggest its linkages with other essays in the volume. A
great variety of approaches and methods characterize film writing
today, and the final part conveys their diversity--from statistical
style analysis to phenomenology and from gay criticisms to
neoformalism. This concluding part also shows how the rigorous use
of a broad range of approaches has helped remove post-structuralist
criticism from its position of dominance through most of the
seventies and early eighties. The writings collected in this volume
exhibit not only a strong sense of personal engagement but als a
persistent awareness of the social importance of the cinema in our
culture. Movies and Methods, Volume II, will prove as invaluable to
the serious student of cinema as its predecessor; it will be an
essential reference work for years to come.
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Imprint: |
University of California Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
September 1985 |
First published: |
September 1985 |
Editors: |
Bill Nichols
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 46mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
764 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-520-05409-7 |
Categories: |
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
Performing arts >
Films, cinema >
General
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LSN: |
0-520-05409-1 |
Barcode: |
9780520054097 |
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