Film as Social Practice, 3rd Edition (Studies in Culture and Communication)
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Book Description
Explores cinema from a social and cultural perspective, discussing film as a cultural industry and examining how issues of gender, class and ethnicity impact upon representation and spectatorship. This third edition of the best-selling work has been updated to include: analysis of recent films such as Scream 2, Lethal Weapon 4, and The Wedding Singer; an expanded section on feminist approaches to film; new material on narrative approaches, spectatorship, and psychoanalytic approaches; and increased focus on the industry in Hollywood and the rise of multiplexes.
About the Author
Graeme Turner is Professor of Cultural Studies in the Department of English at Queensland University. He is the editor of Nation, Culture Text: Australian Cultural and Media Studies (1993) and British Cultural Studies: An Introduction (1990).
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