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Comprised of twenty chapters by leading scholars and industry professionals,
The Oxford Handbook of Film and Media Studies yields fresh perspectives on film and media in the U.S., Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East.
List of contents
- Introduction
- 1. Jay David Bolter, Digital Media and the Future of Filmic Narrative
- 2. Brian Price, The Last Laoco:on
- 3. Devin Orgeron, Visual Media and the Tyranny of the Real
- 4. Francis Guerin, Radical Aspirations Historicized: The European Commitment to Political Documentary
- 5. Jeannene M. Przyblyski, Loss of Light: The Long Shadow of Photography in the Digital Age
- 6. Marsha Orgeron, Media Celebrity in the Age of the Image
- 7. Paul Young, Film Genre Theory and Contemporary Media: Description, Interpretation, Intermediality
- 8. Toby Miller and Mariana Johnson, The Who, What, When, Where, And How-Gilda Says Textual Analysis
- Needs To Learn From Political Economy And Ethnography
- 9. William Uricchio, Television's First 75 Years: The Interpretive Flexibility Of A Medium In Transition
- 10. Tara McPherson, "The end of TV as we know it": Convergence, Anxiety, Generic Innovation, and the Case of 24
- 11. John Caldwell, Screen Practice and Conglomeration: How Reflexivity and Conglomeration Fuel Each Other
- 12. Evans Chan, The Chinese Action Image and Postmodernity
- 13. Joseph Schaub, When Cute Becomes Scary: The Young Female in Japanese Horror Cinema
- 14. Gina Marchetti, Asian Film and Digital Culture
- 15. Manjunath Pendakur, Popular Cinema and "New" Media in India
- 16. Cristina Venegas, Dreaming With Open Eyes: Latin American Media in the Digital Age
- 17. Andrew Flibbert, The Globalization of Filmmaking in Latin America and the Middle East
- 18. David Golumbia, Computers and Cultural Studies
- 19. Warren Buckland, Film and Media Studies Pedagogy
- 20. Peter Jaszi, Copyright, Fair Use, and Motion Pictures
- Appendix I. Tom Bernard, Evolution of Modern Day Independent Film Making
- Appendix II. Lee Berger and Richard Hollander, The Digital Revolution
About the author
Robert P. Kolker, Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland, taught cinema studies for almost 50 years. He is author of A Cinema of Loneliness; The Extraordinary Image: Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick and the Reimagining of Cinema; Triumph over Containment: American Film in the 1950s; and Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making his Final Film (with Nathan Abrams) and editor of 2001: A Space Odyssey: New Essays.
Summary
Comprised of twenty chapters by leading scholars and industry professionals, The Oxford Handbook of Film and Media Studies yields fresh perspectives on film and media in the U.S., Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East.
