Film: The Key Concepts textbook - Nitzan Ben-Shaul

Film: The Key Concepts Author: Nitzan Ben-Shaul (Used Book - Excellent Condition) Brand: Berg Publishers 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 that make up film theory, illustrating arguments with examples from mainstream and independent films. Concise and comprehensive, the book guides the reader through realism, formalism, structuralism, semiotics, Marxism, psychoanalysis, feminism, cognitivism, post-colonialism, postmodernism, gender and queer film theory, stardom, and film audience research. The book as a whole provides a complete overview of the evolution of film theory. Throughout, the analysis is illustrated with lively boxed studies of key mainstream and independent films. Bulleted chapter summaries, questions, and guides to further reading are also provided.