Genre, Gender, Race, and World Cinema - Softcover

Julie Codell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1405132337 ISBN 13: 9781405132336

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2006

Synopsis

Genre, Gender, Race, and World Cinema is an innovative anthology that introduces the study of film theory using the four topics of genre, gender, race, and world cinema, to encourage critical discussion.

• A major anthology geared towards course use, which covers key concepts in film studies through analysis of important films from American, Asian, European and African cinema
• Combines formal, historical, cultural, and theoretical approaches to study
• Analyzes how film represents and influences individual and societal constructs of identity
• Uses selected readings to introduce inter-textual relations between the readings and the films they discuss
• Contains section introductions that map the themes and histories of each topic, and raise theoretical issues specific to each

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Genre, Gender, Race, and World Cinema is an original collection of essays that introduces the study of film theory through contemporary issues. Using topics of genre, gender, and race, this book encourages critical discussion, combining formal, historical, cultural, and theoretical approaches to the study of world cinema. It examines issues at the forefront of contemporary film studies: bodies, technology, mobile identities, sexuality, transnationality, globalism, diaspora/home, and post-cinematic selves.

United by the overarching theme of identity, this book analyzes how film represents and influences individual and societal constructs of self. Organized thematically, the volume introduces important concepts in film studies while giving exemplary analyses of important films from American, Asian, European, and African cinema. Introductions to each section map the themes and histories of each topic, raising theoretical issues specific to each, and filmographies are included to augment films discussed in the readings.

About the Author:

Julie F. Codell is Professor of Art History and English at Arizona State University. She is the author of The Victorian Artist: Artists’ Lifewritings in Britain (2003).

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1405132337
• ISBN 13: 9781405132336
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 484