The Oxford handbook of film and media studies /

The Oxford handbook of film and media studies / Film and media studies edited by Robert Kolker. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2008. - xii, 628 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. - [Oxford handbooks] .

Series title from jacket.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Digital media and the future of filmic narrative / Jay David Bolter --
The latest Laocoon: medium specificity and the history of film theory / Brian Price --
Visual media and the tyranny of the real / Devin Orgeron --
Radical aspirations historicized: the European commitment to political documentary / Frances Guerin --
Loss of light: the long shadow of photography in the digital age /Jeannene M. Przyblyski --
Media celebrity in the age of the image / Marsha Orgeron --
Film genre theory and contemporary media: description, interpretation, intermediality / Paul Young --
Gilda: textual analysis, political economy, and ethnography / Toby Miller and Mariana Johnson --
Television's first seventy-five years: the interpretive flexibility of a medium in transition / William Uricchio --
"The end of TV as we know it": convergence anxiety, generic innovation, and the case of 24 / Tara McPherson --
Screen practice and conglomeration: how reflexivity and conglomeration fuel each other / John T. Caldwell --
The Chinese action image and postmodernity / Evans Chan --
When cute becomes scary: the young female in contemporary Japanese horror cinema / Joseph Christopher Schaub --
Asian film and digital culture / Gina Marchetti --
Popular cinema and the "new" media in India / Manjunath Pendakur --
Dreaming with open eyes: Latin American media in the digital age / Cristina Benegas --
The globalization of filmmaking in Latin America and the Middle East / Andrew Flibbert --
Computers and cultural studies / David Golumbia --
Film and media studies pedagogy / Warren Buckland --
Copyright, fair use, and motion pictures / Peter Jaszi --Appendix 1: evolution of modern-day independent filmmaking / Tom Bernard --
Appendix 2: the digital revolution / Lee Berger and Richard Hollander.


This reference work provides a single-volume source of original scholarship on the intersection of film and media studies. Some essays survey particular issues, such as the changing concept of 'realism' in film. Others look at current media practices with special attention to new media.

9780195175967 (cloth : alk. paper) 0195175964 (cloth : alk. paper)


Motion pictures.
Mass media.
Interactive multimedia.

PN 1994 / O98 2008

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