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Thinking About Movies, Third Edition is a comprehensive guide for students and movie lovers who want to learn how to watch movies critically and analytically. Intended for the beginner, the text offers the critical building blocks required to understand film as an important narrative and cultural form.
List of contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
1. Introduction.
Fatal Attraction and Scarface.
2. Narrative Structure.
Jurassic Park and Rashomon.
3. Formal Analysis.
Rules of the Game and The Sixth Sense.
4. Authorship.
The Searchers and Jungle Fever.
5. Genres.
Sin City and Gunfight at the OK Corral.
6. Series, Sequels, and Remakes.
Goldfinger and King Kong 1933 and 2005.
7. Actors and Stars.
Morocco and Dirty Harry.
8. Audiences and Reception.
A Woman of Paris and The Crying Game.
9. Film and the Other Arts.
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Nosferatu.
10. Film and its Relation to Radio and Television.
Richard Diamond: Private Detective, Peter Gunn, and Victor/Victoria.
11. Realism and Theories of Film.
The Battleship Potemkin and Umberto D.
12. Gender and Sexuality.
The Silence of the Lambs and American Gigolo.
13. Race.
Out of the Past, LA Confidential, and Boyz N the Hood.
14. Class.
Pretty Woman and The People Under the Stairs.
15. Citizen Kane: An Analysis.
Citizen Kane.
16. Globalization, Digitalization, Convergence: Current Trends.
The Matrix.
Glossary.
Index
Report
"What is most striking is the structure of the text. [Its] relationship to other media is also a welcome addition to this study. THINKING ABOUT MOVIES is an effective text for an introductory film course at the college level. It offers many good insights, and is filled with interesting essays on a variety of cinematic genres." ( RogueCinema.com , December 2008)
