The SAGE Handbook of Film Studies
Edited by:
- James Donald - University of New South Wales, Australia
- Michael Renov - University of Southern California, USA
536 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
Film Studies has emerged as one of the most distinctive and exciting areas of study and research to be established in the second half of the twentieth century.
Written by a team of veteran scholars and emerging talents, The SAGE Handbook of Film Studies maps the international traditions of the field, drawing out regional differences in the way that intellectual reflection on cinema and film has been transformed into a field of systematic inquiry. It reflects on the field's conceptual infrastructure, the dominant paradigms and debates, and evaluates their continuing salience. Finally, it looks optimistically to the future of film, the institution of cinema, and the discipline of Film Studies at a time when the very existence of film is being called into question by new technological, industrial, and aesthetic developments.
An indispensable resource for scholars and students of Film Studies, The SAGE Handbook of Film Studies is at once a synthesis of advances in the field, and a provocative examination of the state of the art and its futures.
Written by a team of veteran scholars and emerging talents, The SAGE Handbook of Film Studies maps the international traditions of the field, drawing out regional differences in the way that intellectual reflection on cinema and film has been transformed into a field of systematic inquiry. It reflects on the field's conceptual infrastructure, the dominant paradigms and debates, and evaluates their continuing salience. Finally, it looks optimistically to the future of film, the institution of cinema, and the discipline of Film Studies at a time when the very existence of film is being called into question by new technological, industrial, and aesthetic developments.
An indispensable resource for scholars and students of Film Studies, The SAGE Handbook of Film Studies is at once a synthesis of advances in the field, and a provocative examination of the state of the art and its futures.
James Donald
Introduction
PART ONE: MAPPING TRADITIONS
Dana Polan
North America
Ian Aitken
European Film Scholarship
Stephanie Hemelryk Donald and Paola Voci
China
Brian Shoesmith
Our Films, Their Films
David Oubiña
Film Research in Argentina
Ismail Xavier
Cinema Studies in Brazil
Carlos A. Gutiérrez
Y Tu Crítica También
Noel King, Constantine Verevis and Deane Williams
Australia
Bhaskar Sarkar
Postcolonial and Transnational Perspectives
PART TWO: DISCIPLINARY DIALOGUES
Murray Smith
Film and Philosophy
Hamish Ford
Difficult Relations
Angela Dalle Vacche
Cinema and Art History
Vanessa R. Schwartz
Film and History
Faye Ginsburg
Mass Media, Anthropology and Ethnography
Patrick Fuery
Psychoanalysis and Cinema
Tom O'Regan
The Political Economy of Film
Lynn Spigel
TV's Next Season?
Graeme Turner
Film and Cultural Studies
PART THREE: PARADIGMS IN PERSPECTIVE
Ruth Vasey
The Hollywood Industry Paradigm
Warren Buckland
Formalist Tendencies in Film Studies
Michael O'Pray
The Persistence of the Avant-Garde
Julian Murphet
Film and (as) Modernity
Jane Gaines
Cinema/Ideology/Society
George Kouvaros
`We Do Not Die Twice'
Alison Butler
Feminist Perspectives in Film Studies
John Caughie
Authors and Auteurs
Philip Brophy
Where Sound Is
Matt Hills
The Question of Genre in Cult Film and Fandom
Jostein Gripsrud and Erlend Lavik
Film Audiences
Vijay Mishra
Re-Mapping Bollywood Cinema
Scott McQuire
Film in the Context of Digital Media