Description
Book SynopsisA complete introduction to analyzing and enjoying a wide variety of movies, for film students and movie lovers alike Thinking About Movies: Watching, Questioning, Enjoying, Fourth Edition is a thorough overview of movie analysis designed to enlighten both students and enthusiasts, and heighten their enjoyment of films. Readers will delve into the process of thinking about movies critically and analytically, and find how doing so can greatly enhance the pleasure of watching movies. Divided roughly into two parts, the book addresses film studies within the context of the dynamics of cinema, before moving on to a broader analysis of the relationship of films to the larger social, cultural, and industrial issues informing them.
This updated fourth edition includes an entirely new section devoted to a complete analysis of the film adaptation of
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, along with many in-depth discussions of important films such as
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Table of Contents
List of Figures ix
How to Use This Book xvi
Acknowledgments xix
About the Companion Blog xxi
1 Introduction 1
Fatal Attraction and Scarface
2 Narrative Structure 27
Jurassic Park and Rashomon
3 Formal Analysis 61
Rules of the Game and The Sixth Sense
4 Authorship 87
The Searchers and Jungle Fever
5 Genres 111
Sin City and Gunfight at the OK Corral
6 Series, Sequels, and Remakes 141
Goldfinger and King Kong (1933 and 2005)
7 Actors and Stars 171
Morocco and Dirty Harry
8 Audiences and Reception 197
A Woman of Paris and The Crying Game
9 Film and the Other Arts 222
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1933) and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
10 Film and its Relation to Radio and Television 257
Richard Diamond, Private Detective; Peter Gunn; Victor/Victoria; 24; and Homeland
11 Realism and Theories of Film 296
The Battleship Potemkin and Umberto D
12 Gender and Sexuality 317
The Silence of the Lambs and American Gigolo
13 Race 341
Out of the Past, LA Confidential, and Boyz N the Hood
14 Class 371
Pretty Woman and The People Under the Stairs
15 Citizen Kane: An Analysis 396
Citizen Kane
16 Current Trends: Globalization and China, 3D, IMAX, Internet TV 419
Glossary 441
Index 446
