Film as Social Practice (Studies in Culture and Communication)

by Graeme Turner (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2006

  $4.10

  This fourth edition of our bestselling classic text has been comprehensively updated and revised to include contemporary film analysis and recent films. With a focus on contemporary popular cinema and examples from Classical Hollywood, Graeme Turner examines the social and cultural aspects of film from audiences and ideologies to exhibition and technology. This fourth edition now includes: * new sections dealing with debates about spectacle and special effects * an extended treatment of sound and its contribution to cinema * film theory's discussion of the representation of race and ethnicity * a thorough update of individual film references * a revised applications chapter that includes new contemporary examples * new illustrations from contemporary popular cinema. Students of film studies, film practice and film theory will find this a welcome addition to their degree course studies.

• Used

  Paperback
  1993

  $3.24

  Going beyond literary preoccupations, this examines film as a social practice, its production and its consumption, its pleasures and its meanings. Contemporary perspectives on the cinema, including theories of structuralism, marxism and feminism, are explained with freshness and clarity, and their applications are tested against classics of popular film - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Desperately Seeking Susan, and many others.

• New

  Paperback
  2006

  $43.87

  This fourth edition of our bestselling classic text has been comprehensively updated and revised to include contemporary film analysis and recent films. With a focus on contemporary popular cinema and examples from Classical Hollywood, Graeme Turner examines the social and cultural aspects of film from audiences and ideologies to exhibition and technology. This fourth edition now includes: * new sections dealing with debates about spectacle and special effects * an extended treatment of sound and its contribution to cinema * film theory's discussion of the representation of race and ethnicity * a thorough update of individual film references * a revised applications chapter that includes new contemporary examples * new illustrations from contemporary popular cinema. Students of film studies, film practice and film theory will find this a welcome addition to their degree course studies.