From Antz to Titanic: Reinventing film analysis
Title
From Antz to Titanic: Reinventing film analysis
Subject
films; criticism; textbooks
Description
The authors provide a jargon-free, accessible and student-friendly introduction to film analysis. They begin with a discussion about audience and a detailed case-study on four conflicting analyses of Capra’s It’s A Wonderful Life. The authors examine a range of popular Hollywood films in a variety of genres, including Titanic, Deep Impact, Sleepless in Seattle, The Lion King, Starship Troopers and The Usual Suspects, and provide vivid demonstrations of what can and can’t be achieved with close textual analysis. The book ends by proposing a list of measures for assessing the adequacy of film analyses: measures intended to lay the basis of a way of doing film analysis which goes beyond theoretically-predetermined and often obscurantist assertions.
Explicitly rejecting much of the theoretical baggage that dogs contemporary film analysis, Barker and Austin strip the subject down to its bare essentials. The result is a provocative and timely reexamination of many of the basic tenets in film theory and analysis.
Explicitly rejecting much of the theoretical baggage that dogs contemporary film analysis, Barker and Austin strip the subject down to its bare essentials. The result is a provocative and timely reexamination of many of the basic tenets in film theory and analysis.
Creator
Barker, Martin (author)
Publisher
London: Pluto Press, 2000
Identifier
LIB00175
ISBN
9780745315799
Library Location
Archive store
Files
Collection
Citation
Barker, Martin (author), “From Antz to Titanic: Reinventing film analysis,” Curzon Cinema Collection, accessed April 30, 2024, https://curzoncollection.omeka.net/items/show/1958.