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Genre, Gender, Race and World Cinema: An Anthology

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ISBN: 978-1-405-13232-9

September 2006

Wiley-Blackwell

496 pages

Description
Genre, Gender, Race, and World Cinema is an innovative anthology that introduces the study of film theory using the four topics of genre, gender, race, and world cinema, to encourage critical discussion.
  • A major anthology geared towards course use, which covers key concepts in film studies through analysis of important films from American, Asian, European and African cinema
  • Combines formal, historical, cultural, and theoretical approaches to study
  • Analyzes how film represents and influences individual and societal constructs of identity
  • Uses selected readings to introduce inter-textual relations between the readings and the films they discuss
  • Contains section introductions that map the themes and histories of each topic, and raise theoretical issues specific to each
About the Author
Julie F. Codell is Professor of Art History and English at Arizona State University. She is the author of The Victorian Artist: Artists’ Lifewritings in Britain (2003).
Features

  • A major anthology geared towards course use, which covers key concepts in film studies through analysis of important films from American, Asian, European and African cinema.

  • Features innovative use of four topics - genre, gender, race, and world cinema - to introduce concepts and encourage critical discussion.

  • Combines formal, historical, cultural, and theoretical approaches to study.

  • Analyzes how film represents and influences individual and societal constructs of identity.

  • Uses selected readings to introduce inter-textual relations between the readings and the films they discuss.

  • Contains section introductions that map the themes and histories of each topic, and raise theoretical issues specific to each.