Film, Form, and Culture
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Film, Form, and Culture

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Film, Form, and Culture

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This fifth edition of Film, Form, and Culture offers a lively introduction to both the formal and cultural aspects of film.

With extensive analysis of films past and present, this textbook explores how films are constructed from part to whole: from the smallest unit of the shot to the way shots are edited together to create narrative. Robert P. Kolker and Marsha Gordon demystify the technical aspects of filmmaking and demonstrate how fiction and nonfiction films engage with culture. Over 265 images provide a visual index to the films and issues being discussed. This new edition includes: an expanded examination of digital filmmaking and distribution in the age of streaming; attention to superhero films throughout; a significantly longer chapter on global cinema with new or enlarged sections on a variety of national cinemas (including cinema from Nigeria, Senegal, Burkina Faso, South Korea, Japan, India, Belgium, and Iran); new or expanded discussions of directors, including Alice Guy-BlachÊ, Lois Weber, Oscar Micheaux, Agnès Varda, Spike Lee, Julie Dash, Jafar Panahi, Ava DuVernay, Jane Campion, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne and Penny Lane; and new, in-depth explorations of films, including Within Our Gates (1919), Black Girl (1966), Creed (2015), Moonlight (2016), Wonder Woman (2017), Get Out (2017), Black Panther (2018), Parasite (2019), Da 5 Bloods (2020), The French Dispatch (2021), The Power of the Dog (2021), RRR (2022), and Tår (2022).

This textbook is an invaluable and exciting resource for students beginning film studies at undergraduate level.

Additional resources for students and teachers can be found on the eResource, which includes case studies, discussion questions, and links to useful websites.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2024
ISBN
9781003850922
Edition
5
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Media Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Endorsements
  3. Half Title
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Table of Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. Preface
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Introduction
  11. 1 Image and Reality
  12. 2 Formal Structures: How Films Tell Their Stories
  13. 3 The Building Blocks of Film I: The Shot and Its Elements
  14. 4 The Building Blocks of Film II: The Cut
  15. 5 The Storytellers of Film I
  16. 6 The Storytellers of Film II: Acting
  17. 7 The Storytellers of Film III: The Director
  18. 8 Global Cinema
  19. 9 The Stories Told by Film I
  20. 10 The Stories Told by Film II
  21. 11 Film as Cultural Practice
  22. Glossary
  23. Index