Interpretation And Film Studies

Author : Phillip Novak
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030447397

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Interpretation and Film Studies by Phillip Novak Pdf

This book argues that the sustained interpretation of individual movies has, contrary to conventional wisdom, never been a major preoccupation of film studies—that, indeed, the field is marked by a dearth of effective, engaging, and enlightening critical analyses of single films. The book makes this case by surveying what has been written about four historically important and well-known movies (D. W. Griffith’s Way Down East, Marcel Carné’s Port of Shadows, Mike Nichols’s The Graduate, and Michelangelo Antonioni’s Red Desert), none of which has been the focus of sustained critical attention, and by exhaustively examining the kinds of work published in four influential film journals (Cinema Journal, Screen, Wide Angle, and Movie). The book goes on to argue for the value of the work of interpretation, illustrating this value through extended analyses of Roman Polanski’s Chinatown and Christopher Nolan’s Memento, both of which thematize interpretation. Novak demonstrates the causes and consequences of reading poorly and the importance of reading well.

Author : Janet Staiger
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780691216065

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Interpreting Films by Janet Staiger Pdf

Employing a wide range of examples from Uncle Tom's Cabin and Birth of a Nation to Zelig and Personal Best, Janet Staiger argues that a historical examination of spectators' responses to films can make a valuable contribution to the history, criticism, and philosophy of cultural products. She maintains that as artifacts, films do not contain immanent meanings, that differences among interpretations have historical bases, and that these variations are due to social, political, and economic conditions as well as the viewers' constructed images of themselves. After proposing a theory of reception study, the author demonstrates its application mainly through analyzing the varying responses of audiences to certain films at specific moments in history. Staiger gives special attention to how questions of class, gender, sexual preference, race, and ethnicity enter into film viewers' interpretations. Her analysis reflects recent developments in post-structuralism, cognitive psychology, psychoanalysis, and cultural studies, and includes a discussion of current reader-response models in literary and film studies as well as an alternative approach for thinking about historical readers and spectators.

Author : David BORDWELL,David Bordwell
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674028531

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Making Meaning by David BORDWELL,David Bordwell Pdf

David Bordwell's new book is at once a history of film criticism, an analysis of how critics interpret film, and a proposal for an alternative program for film studies. It is an anatomy of film criticism meant to reset the agenda for film scholarship. As such Making Meaning should be a landmark book, a focus for debate from which future film study will evolve. Bordwell systematically maps different strategies for interpreting films and making meaning, illustrating his points with a vast array of examples from Western film criticism. Following an introductory chapter that sets out the terms and scope of the argument, Bordwell goes on to show how critical institutions constrain and contain the very practices they promote, and how the interpretation of texts has become a central preoccupation of the humanities. He gives lucid accounts of the development of film criticism in France, Britain, and the United States since World War II; analyzes this development through two important types of criticism, thematic-explicatory and symptomatic; and shows that both types, usually seen as antithetical, in fact have much in common. These diverse and even warring schools of criticism share conventional, rhetorical, and problem-solving techniques--a point that has broad-ranging implications for the way critics practice their art. The book concludes with a survey of the alternatives to criticism based on interpretation and, finally, with the proposal that a historical poetics of cinema offers the most fruitful framework for film analysis.

Author : John Gibbs,Douglas Pye
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0719065259

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Style and Meaning by John Gibbs,Douglas Pye Pdf

With a common focus on the decisions made by filmmakers, the essays in this collection explore different aspects of the relationship between textual detail and broader conceptual frameworks. These texts reflect not only those areas of film history which have traditionally been explored through mise-en-scène criticism, but also areas such as the avant-garde and television drama which have not tended to receive such detailed investigation. In these ways, the book conducts a series of dialogues with issues in film study which are specifically provoked by close analysis.

Author : Alberto Baracco
Publisher : Springer
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319654003

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Hermeneutics of the Film World by Alberto Baracco Pdf

This book identifies a new methodological strategy for the interpretation of film philosophizing. Many recent works in film philosophy, adopting the approach identified with the term film as philosophy, have considered film as capable of doing philosophy. Focused on the basic relationship between film and filmgoer, the proposed method is founded on the concept of the film world. Combining Merleau-Ponty’s and Ricœur’s philosophies, and reconsidering Goodman’s theory of worldmaking, the film world becomes the hermeneutic horizon from which film philosophical thought can emerge. The book shows how Ricœurian methodology has the potential to provide a valuable resource for film studies by inviting scholars to consider film interpretation in terms of film world hermeneutics.

Author : Gaston Roberge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015035316739

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The Ways of Film Studies by Gaston Roberge Pdf

Author : John Gibbs
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231503112

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Mise-en-scène by John Gibbs Pdf

Mise-en-scène: Film Style and Interpretation explores and elucidates constructions of this fundamental concept in thinking about film. In uncovering the history of mise-en-scène within film criticism, and through the detailed exploration of scenes from films as Imitation of Life and Lone Star, John Gibbs makes the case for the importance of a sensitive understanding of film style, and provides an introduction to the skills of close reading. This book thus celebrates film-making as well as film criticism that is alive to the creative possibilities of visual style.

Author : Janina Wildfeuer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135020866

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Film Discourse Interpretation by Janina Wildfeuer Pdf

This book contributes to the analysis of film from a multimodal and textual perspective by extending formal semantics into the realm of multimodal discourse analysis. It accounts for both the inferential as well as intersemiotic meaning making processes in filmic discourse and therefore addresses one of the main questions that have been asked within film theory and multimodal analysis: How do we understand film and multimodal texts? The book offers an analytical answer to this question by providing a systematic tool for the description of this comprehension process. It aims to advance knowledge of the various resources in filmic texts, the ways the resources work together in constructing meaning and the ways people understand this meaning construction. This new approach to film interpretation is thus able to remodel and improve the classical paradigm of film text analysis.

Author : David P. Neumeyer
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780253016515

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Meaning and Interpretation of Music in Cinema by David P. Neumeyer Pdf

By exploring the relationship between music and the moving image in film narrative, David Neumeyer shows that film music is not conceptually separate from sound or dialogue, but that all three are manipulated and continually interact in the larger acoustical world of the sound track. In a medium in which the image has traditionally trumped sound, Neumeyer turns our attention to the voice as the mechanism through which narrative (dialog, speech) and sound (sound effects, music) come together. Complemented by music examples, illustrations, and contributions by James Buhler, Meaning and Interpretation of Music in Cinema is the capstone of Neumeyer’s 25-year project in the analysis and interpretation of music in film.

Author : Noel Carroll
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1998-05-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0521589703

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Interpreting the Moving Image by Noel Carroll Pdf

A collection of film essays by the well-respected critic, Noël Carroll.

Author : Blandine Joret
Publisher : Film Theory in Media History
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Film critics
ISBN : 9462989524

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Studying Film with André Bazin by Blandine Joret Pdf

The impact of French film critic André Bazin (1918-1958) on the development of film studies, though generally acknowledged, remains contested. A passionate initiator of film culture during his lifetime, his ideas have been challenged, defended and revived throughout his afterlife. Studying Film with André Bazin offers an entirely original interpretation of major concepts from Bazin's legacy, such as auteur theory, realism, film language and the influence of film on other arts (poetry and painting in particular). By examining mostly unknown and uncollected texts, Blandine Joret explains Bazin's methodology and adopts it in a contemporary reading, linking his ideas to major philosophical and scientific frameworks as well as more recent media practices such as advertising, CGI, 3D cinema and Virtual Reality. In tune with 21st-century concerns in media culture and film studies, this book addresses a wide readership of film scholars, students and cinephiles.

Author : Janina Wildfeuer,John A. Bateman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317434221

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Film Text Analysis by Janina Wildfeuer,John A. Bateman Pdf

This book examines film as a multimodal text and an audiovisual synthesis, bringing together current work within the fields of narratology, philosophy, multimodal analysis, sound as well as cultural studies in order to cover a wide range of international academic interest. The book provides new insights into current work and turns the discussion towards recent research questions and analyses, representing and constituting in each contribution new work in the discipline of film text analysis. With the help of various example analyses, all showing the methodological applicability of the discussed issues, the collection provides novel ways of considering film as one of the most complex and at the same time broadly comprehensible texts.

Author : David C. L. Lim,Hiroyuki Yamamoto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781136592461

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Film in Contemporary Southeast Asia by David C. L. Lim,Hiroyuki Yamamoto Pdf

This book discusses contemporary film in all the main countries of Southeast Asia, and the social practices and ideologies which films either represent or oppose. It shows how film acquires signification through cultural interpretation, and how film also serves as a site of contestations between social and political agents seeking to promote, challenge, or erase certain meanings, messages or ideas from public circulation. A unique feature of the book is that it focuses as much on films as it does on the societies from which these films emerge: it considers the reasons for film-makers taking the positions they take; the positions and counter-positions taken; the response of different communities; and the extent to which these interventions are connected to global flows of culture and capital. The wide range of subjects covered include documentaries as political interventions in Singapore; political film-makers’ collectives in the Philippines, and films about prostitution in Cambodia and patriotism in Malaysia, and the Chinese in Indonesia. The book analyses films from Burma, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines, across a broad range of productions – such as mainstream and independent features across genres (for example comedy, patriotic, political, historical genres) alongside documentary, classic and diasporic films.

Author : David Bordwell,Noel Carroll
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780299149437

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Post-Theory by David Bordwell,Noel Carroll Pdf

Since the 1970s, the academic study of film has been dominated by Structuralist Marxism, varieties of cultural theory, and the psychoanalytic ideas of Freud and Lacan. With Post-Theory, David Bordwell and Noel Carroll have opened the floor to other voices challenging the prevailing practices of film scholarship. Addressing topics as diverse as film scores, national film industries, and audience response. Post-Theory offers fresh directions for understanding film.

Author : Janina Wildfeuer,John A. Bateman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317434214

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Film Text Analysis by Janina Wildfeuer,John A. Bateman Pdf

This book examines film as a multimodal text and an audiovisual synthesis, bringing together current work within the fields of narratology, philosophy, multimodal analysis, sound as well as cultural studies in order to cover a wide range of international academic interest. The book provides new insights into current work and turns the discussion towards recent research questions and analyses, representing and constituting in each contribution new work in the discipline of film text analysis. With the help of various example analyses, all showing the methodological applicability of the discussed issues, the collection provides novel ways of considering film as one of the most complex and at the same time broadly comprehensible texts.