Understanding sound tracks through film theory / Elsie Walker.
Understanding Sound Tracks Through Film Theory breaks new ground by redirecting the arguments of foundational texts within film theory to film sound tracks. Walker includes sustained analyses of particular films according to a range of theoretical approaches: psychoanalysis, feminism, genre studies,...
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| Language: | English |
| Published: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2015] ©2015. |
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Table of Contents:
- Genre studies. Introduction: "A semantic/syntactic approach to film genre" by Rick Altman ; The searchers ; Dead man
- Postcolonialism. Introduction: "Colonialism, racism, and representation: an introduction" by Robert Stam and Louise Spence ; Rabbit-proof fence ; Ten canoes
- Feminism. Introduction: "Visual pleasure and narrative cinema" by Laura Mulvey ; To have and have not ; The piano
- Psychoanalysis. Introduction: "Looking for the gaze: Lacanian film theory and its vicissitudes" by Todd McGowan ; Bigger than life ; Shutter island
- Queer theory. Introduction: "Imitation and gender insubordination" by Judith Butler ; Rebecca ; Heavenly creatures.