Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings - Hardcover

Mast, Gerald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195035739 ISBN 13: 9780195035735

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1985

Synopsis

Brought up to date with an expanded range of selections, extended historical coverage, and a dedicated pluralistic commitment, the third edition of this highly popular text on film aesthetics features major additions of contemporary topics in film theory--including psychoanalytic, feminist, and Marxist approaches--and new essays on television, horror films, and experimental movie making.
Of the 53 selections, 13 are new. The section "Kinds of Film" has been retitled "Film Genres" and concentrates exclusively on the distinctions within a single type of film: classical Hollywood narrative cinema. The final section, now called "Film: Psychology, Society, and Ideology" is substantially revised to take into account film's relationship to its consumers: how films shape or reflect cultural attitudes, reinforce or reject dominant modes of cultural thinking, and stimulate or frustrate people's needs and drives. Throughout the book chapter introductions have been rewritten to reflect today's concerns.
Current and comprehensive, the book that The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism called "the best collection available on the disparate comments in the fields of film theory and criticism" is now even better.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0195035739
• ISBN 13: 9780195035735
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 854