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Standard Hollywood narrative movies prescribe linear narratives
that cue the viewer to expect predictable outcomes and adopt a
closed state of mind. There are, however, a small number of movies
that, through the presentation of alternate narrative paths, open
the mind to thoughts of choice and possibility. Through the study
of several key movies for which this concept is central, such as
Sliding Doors, Run Lola Run, Inglourious Basterds, and Rashomon,
Nitzan Ben Shaul examines the causes and implications of optional
thinking and how these movies allow for more open and creative
possibilities. This book examines the methods by which standard
narrative movies close down thinking processes and deliver easy
pleasures to the viewer whilst demonstrating that this is not the
only possibility and that optional thinking can be both stimulating
and rewarding.
Standard Hollywood narrative movies prescribe linear narratives
that cue the viewer to expect predictable outcomes and adopt a
closed state of mind. There are, however, a small number of movies
that, through the presentation of alternate narrative paths, open
the mind to thoughts of choice and possibility. Through the study
of several key movies for which this concept is central, such as
Sliding Doors, Run Lola Run, Inglourious Basterds, and Rashomon,
Nitzan Ben Shaul examines the causes and implications of optional
thinking and how these movies allow for more open and creative
possibilities. This book examines the methods by which standard
narrative movies close down thinking processes and deliver easy
pleasures to the viewer whilst demonstrating that this is not the
only possibility and that optional thinking can be both stimulating
and rewarding.
Images are the core of television news, particularly in the
coverage of terror events and war, where pictures often overwhelm
the verbal commentary. A Violent World analyzes images on global
CNN, Israeli IBA, and Palestinian PATV that contribute heavily to
how the current violence in the Middle East is framed. Nitzan
Ben-Shaul draws from critical media theory, and from qualitative
and aesthetic approaches out of cinema studies, to examine how
dominant ideologies are embedded in mainstream TV news.
Specifically, he focuses on the American elites' global ideology
and the conflicting dominant national-peripheral ideologies of
Israeli-Palestinian elites. His in-depth study, of particular
interest to scholars of Middle East studies and international
communication, further offers a new model of analysis for
contemporary television news.
Film: the Key Concepts presents a coherent, clear and exciting
overview of film theory for beginning readers. The book takes the
reader through the often conflicting analyses which make up film
theory, illustrating arguments with examples from mainstream and
independent films. It isolates 6 key concepts in film theory - the
photogenic in film, dialectic film montage, film constructs,
imaginary signifiers, voyeuristic pleasures and simulacra - each
with its own, short essay. Through these concepts it covers the
main sites in film theory: realism, formalism, structuralism,
semiotics, Marxism, psychoanalysis, feminism, cognitivism,
post-colonialism, postmodernism, gender and queer film theories.
Each chapter stands on its own, tracing the historical evolution of
each concept to the present. The book as a whole provides a
complete overview of the evolution of film theory. In order to help
introductory students, each chapter includes boxed summaries of key
theorists, bulleted summaries and an Annotated Guide to Further
Reading.
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