The Oxford Guide to Film Studies

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General Introduction PART ONE: CRITICAL APPROACHES 1. Introduction to Film Studies STUDYING THE FILM TEXT 2. The Film Text and Film Form 3. Film Acting 4. Film Costume 5. Film Music THE FILM TEXT: THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENTS 6. Classic Film Theory and Semiotics 7. Formalism and Neo-formalism 8. Impressionism, Surrealism, and Film Theory 9. Film and Psychoanalysis 10. Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction 11. Film and Postmodernism FILM TEXT AND CONTEXT: GENDER, IDEOLOGY, AND IDENTITIES 12. Marxism and Film 13. Feminism and Film 14. Gay and Lesbian Criticism 15. Queer Theory 16. Pornography 17. Race, Ethnicity, and Film 18. Film and Cultural Identity FILM TEXT AND CONTEXT: CULTURE, HISTORY, AND RECEPTION 19. Film and History 20. Sociology and Film 21. Cultural Studies and Film 22. Film Audiences 23. Hermeneutics, Reception Aesthetics, and Film Interpretation PART TWO: AMERICAN CINEMA AND HOLLYWOOD: CRITICAL APPROACHES. AMERICAN CINEMA: HISTORY, INDUSTRY, AND INTERPRETATION 1. American Cinema and Film History 2. History and Cinema Technology 3. Hollywood as Industry 4. Early American Film 5. Classical Hollywood Film and Melodrama 6. Post-classical Hollywood CRITICAL CONCEPTS 7. Authorship and Hollywood 8. Genre and Hollywood 9. The Star System and Hollywood POLITICS AND SOCIETY 10. Hollywood Film and Society 11. Film Policy: Hollywood and Beyond 12. Hollywood and the World PART THREE: WORLD CINEMA: CRITICAL APPROACHES REDEFINING CINEMA: INTERNATIONAL AND AVANT-GARDE ALTERNATIVES 1. Concepts of National Cinema 2. Modernism and the Avante-Gardes 3. Realism, Modernism, and Post-Colonial REDEFINING CINEMA: OTHER GENRES 4. The Documentary Film 5. The Animated Film EUROPEAN CINEMA 6. Iss ues in European Cinema CASE-STUDIES: MOVEMENTS, MOMENTS, AND FILMMAKERS 7. The Avant-Gardes and European Cinema before 1930 8. Italian Post-War Cinema and Neo-Realism 9. The French Nouvelle Vague 10. New German Cinema 11. East-Central European Cinema 12. European Film Policy and the Response to Hollywood 13. Directors and Stars (a) Jean Renoir (b) Ingmar Bergman (c) Chantal Akerman (d) Pedro Almodovar (e) Luc Besson ANGLOPHONE NATIONAL CINEMAS CASE-STUDIES 14. British Cinema 15. Ireland and Cinema 16. Australian Cinema 17. Canadian Cinema WORLD CINEMA 18. Issues in World Cinema CASE-STUDIES: CINEMAS OF THE WORLD 19. Indian Cinema 20. Chinese Cinema 21(a) Hong Kong Cinema: Discovery and Pre-Discovery 21(b) China, and 1997 22. Taiwanese New Cinema 23. Japanese Cinema 25. South American Cinema FILM IN A CHANGING AGE 26. Film and Changing Technologies 27. Film and Television