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From Antz to Titanic: Reinventing Film Analysis

From Antz to Titanic: Reinventing Film Analysis

Barker, Martin
Austin, Thomas

Paperback

Series: Reinventing Film Analysis

AnthropologyFilm StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0745315798
ISBN13: 9780745315799
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Published: Jun 20 2000
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.62 Width: 5.26 Depth: 8.39
Language: English

Everybody analyses films. Ordinary viewers, chatting on the way home afterwards. Reviewers, telling us just enough to tempt or put off. Critics, 'situating' films for us. Moralists, hunting for the (harmful) message. So what exactly is it that film academics do that's different?

Martin Barker and Thomas Austin provide a jargon-free, accessible and student-friendly introduction to film analysis. They begin with a discussion about audience and a detailed case-study on four conflicting analyses of Capra's It's A Wonderful Life. The authors examine a range of popular Hollywood films in a variety of genres, including Titanic, Deep Impact, Sleepless in Seattle, The Lion King, Starship Troopers and The Usual Suspects, and provide vivid demonstrations of what can and can't be achieved with close textual analysis. The book ends by proposing a list of measures for assessing the adequacy of film analyses: measures intended to lay the basis of a way of doing film analysis which goes beyond theoretically predetermined and often obscurantist assertions.

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