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Thinking about movies : watching, questioning, enjoying / Peter Lehman and William Luhr.

Title: Thinking about movies : watching, questioning, enjoying / Peter Lehman and William Luhr.
Author: Lehman, Peter.
Publication: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2008.

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Additional Authors

Luhr, William.

Description

xvii, 421 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 25 cm.

Summary

This is a comprehensive guide that teaches students and movie lovers how to watch movies critically and analytically. This text offers the critical building blocks required to understand film as an important cultural form and a narrative text.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

1 Introduction -- Fatal Attraction and Scarface -- 2 Narrative Structure -- Jurassic Park and Rashomon -- 3 Formal Analysis -- Rules of the Game and The Sixth Sense -- 4 Authorship -- The Searchers and Jungle Fever -- 5 Genres -- Sin City and Gunfight at the OK Corral -- 6 Series, Sequels, and Remakes -- Goldfinger and King Kong 1933 and 2005 -- 7 Actors and Stars -- Morocco and Dirty Harry -- 8 Audiences and Reception -- A Woman of Paris and The Crying Game -- 9 Film and the Other Arts -- Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Nosferatu -- 10 Film and its Relation to Radio and Television -- Richard Diamond: Private Detective, Peter Gunn, and Victor/Victoria -- 11 Realism and Theories of Film -- The Battleship Potemkin and Umberto D -- 12 Gender and Sexuality -- The Silence of the Lambs and American Gigolo -- 13 Race -- Out of the Past, LA Confidential, and Boyz N the Hood -- 14 Class -- Pretty Woman and The People Under the Stairs -- 15 Citizen Kane: An Analysis -- Citizen Kane -- 16 Globalization, Digitalization, Convergence: Current Trends -- The Matrix

ISBN

9781405154031 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1405154039 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007024787

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library