The film studies reader /

Title:

The film studies reader /

Format:

Book

Institution:

Emerson College

Contents:

Section One: Political Economy and Mass Culture Theory -- The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception / Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer -- A Theory of Mass Culture / Dwight Macdonald -- Concepts of Culture: Public Policy and the Cultural Industries / Nicholas Garnham -- "Holy Commodity Fetish, Batman!": The Political Economy of a Commercial Intertext / Eileen R. Meehan -- Hooray for Hollywood: Moving into the Twenty-First Century / Janet Wasko -- Section Two: Film and Authorship -- The Filmwright and the Audience / Thorold Dickinson -- A Playwright Looks at the "Filmwright" / Howard Koch -- A Certain Tendency of the French Cinema / François Truffaut -- Films, Directors and Critics / Ian Cameron -- Notes on the Auteur Theory in 1962 / Andrew Sarris -- The Auteur Theory / Peter Wollen -- Kawks de-Wollenized / Robin Wood -- Section Three: Genre Criticism -- Authorship and Genre: Notes on the Western / Jim Kitses -- Critical Method...Genre / Andrew Tudor -- Extract from Genre / Steven Neale -- The Woman's Film / Christine Geraghty -- American Film Noir: The History of an Idea / James Naremore -- Section Four: Star Studies -- Stars as Images ; Stars and "Character" ; Living Stars / Richard Dyer -- Stars and the Star System: The Case of Bette Davis / Maria LaPlace -- Cary Grant in the Fifties: Indescretions of the Bachelor's Masquerade / Steven Cohan -- Feminine Fascinations: Forms of Identification in Star-Audience Relations --

Online access:

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Library holdings:

Emerson Main Stacks
PN1995 .F545 2000 – Available

• Available Temporarily at Emerson Reserve
  On reserve for VM200 -2: Media Crit & Theory (Visual and Media Arts: Feil)
  On reserve for VM200 -7: Media Criticism & Theory (Visual and Media Arts: (none))