Approaches to the detailed analysis of film and related questions
about interpretations and value are once again being widely debated
in film studies. Style and meaning is the first edited collection
for many years to focus on these matters. The essays - which
include contributions by established film scholars (such as George
M. Wilson, V. F. Perkins and Laura Mulvey) and by younger writers
in the field - centre on methods of close analysis and ground their
discussion in the detail of individual films. With a common focus
on the choices made by filmmakers, the writers explores different
aspects of the relationship between textual detail and broader
conceptual frameworks. Some chapters examine individual aspects of
filmmaking - the long take, cinematography, space and point of
view, unreliable narration. Others take up different kinds of
questions which are equally crucial to textual analysis and
interpretation, including: meaning and value; emotional response;
the concept of 'the fictional world'; new technologies and film
analysis. The selection of films has been made to reflect not only
those areas of film history which traditionally been explored
through mise-en-scene criticism, but also areas such as the
avant-garde and television drama which have not tended to receives
such detailed investigation. In these ways the book conducts a
series of dialogues with issues in film study which are
specifically provoked by close analysis. Style and meaning is an
important new initiative in the varied literature of film studies.
its highly readable collection of analyses and variety of
approaches will prove popular on undergraduate courses while
providing an invaluable resource for graduate students and teachers
of film and media. -- .
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