Studying Contemporary American Film: A Guide to Movie Analysis
Author/Artist/Editor
Thomas Elsaesser and Warren Buckland
Type
Book, Hard Copy
Date
2002
Press/Publisher
Oxford UP
Language
English
Description
This text presents the most appropriate theories and methods for analyzing contemporary America cinema. Using an innovative approach to writing about individual movies, each of the main chapters examines the assumptions behind one traditional theory of film (e.g. auteurism, narratology, psychoanalysis), distills a method of analysis from it, and then analyzes a contemporary American movie. The text then goes bey