Film and Television Analysis is especially designed to introduce undergraduate students to the most important qualitative methodologies used to study film and television.
The methodologies covered include:
- ideological analysis
- auteur theory
- genre theory
- semiotics and structuralism
- psychoanalysis and apparatus theory
- feminism
- postmodernism
- cultural studies (including reception and audience studies)
- contemporary approaches to race, nation, gender, and sexuality.
With each chapter focusing on a distinct methodology, students are introduced to the historical developments of each approach, along with its vocabulary, significant scholars, key concepts and case studies.
Other features include:
- Over 120 color images throughout
- Questions for discussion at the end of each chapter
- Suggestions for further reading
- A glossary of key terms.
Written in a reader-friendly manner Film and Television Analysis is a vital textbook for students encountering these concepts for the first time.