Film Analysis: A Norton Reader - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 039392324X ISBN 13: 9780393923247

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2013

Synopsis

Fifty essays on fifty films―by a who’s-who of film studies.

Film Analysis offers concise analyses of fifty diverse and historically significant films―each written exclusively for the text by a leading scholar. Written with the undergraduate in mind, the essays are clear, readable, and great models for students to follow in helping them to hone their own writing. The Second Edition includes six new essays, a new, detailed guide to writing film analysis, and an extensive, up-to-date glossary of critical film terms.

About this title

About the Author:

Jeffrey Geiger (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles) teaches at the University of Essex, where he established the Centre for Film Studies. He is the author of Facing the Pacific: Polynesia and the U.S. Imperial Imagination (2007) and American Documentary Film: Projecting the Nation (2011). He has co-edited, with Karin Littau, Cinematicity in Media History (2013).

R. L. Rutsky (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles) teaches in the Cinema Department at San Francisco State University. He is the author of High Technč: Art and Technology from the Machine Aesthetic to the Posthuman (1999), and co-editor of Strategies for Theory: From Marx to Madonna (2003) and Consumption in an Age of Information (2005).

Review:

I have just read, slowly and with great pleasure, straight through and in sequence, the Norton reader on film analysis, and this is a report on the experience. ... the great theme of the book, it seems to me when I try to see it all together, is not the quest for meaning or the avoidance of essentialism ... It is what we might think of as an unsettled theory, the question of what is real in a film, what is ordinary, what 'escape' means, and what work our fantasies are doing in the cinema. -- Michael Wood, Film Quarterly (review of first edition)

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 039392324X
• ISBN 13: 9780393923247
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 1152
• Editor: Geiger Jeffrey, Rutsky R. L.