Film as Social Practice

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Graeme Turner

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This fourth edition of our bestselling classic text has been comprehensively updated and revised to include contemporary film analysis and recent films. With a focus on contemporary popular cinema and examples from Classical Hollywood, Graeme Turner examines the social and cultural aspects of film from audiences and ideologies to exhibition and technology. This fourth edition now includes: new sections dealing with debates about spectacle and special effects an extended treatment of sound and its contribution to cinema film theory’s discussion of the representation of race and ethnicity a thorough update of individual film references a revised applications chapter that includes new contemporary examples new illustrations from contemporary popular cinema. Students of film studies, film practice and film theory will find this a welcome addition to their degree course studies.

Author Biography:

Graeme Turner is Professor of Cultural Studies and Director of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. He has published many books on media and cultural studies including British Cultural Studies: An Introduction, Understanding Celebrity and The Film Cultures Reader.

Release date Australia

July 6th, 2006

Author

Graeme Turner

Audience

Undergraduate

Edition

4th edition

Illustrations

1 Line drawings, black and white; 20 Halftones, black and white

Pages

272

Dimensions

138x216x15

ISBN-13

9780415375146

Product ID

2130754

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