CINEMA & CULTURAL MODERNITY by Gill Branston
This volume carves a lucid path through the central debates of film and cinema studies and explores these in their social and political contexts. The book includes histories of the ways in which we view Hollywood's global dominance, up to the development of late modernity and the declaration of postmodernity. In an accessible fashion, it discusses changing theorizations of the economics, audiences, and fascinations of cinema, addressing concepts such as agency, negotiation and identification, and global popularity within contemporary cultures of celebrity, consumption and the visual. Gill Branston outlines the need for cinema study that is both sensitive to the formal textiness of films, but also less anxious about arguing for its position within broad agendas of representation. At the same time, the author links such areas to both the pleasures of consumption, which cinema so often evokes and embodies, and to the need for a new, critical politics to address the persistent inequalities of modernity, inequalities which still fuel lively interest in questions of representation.
Gill Branston lectures and researches in Film Studies in the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University. She has published widely in the areas of Film and Television Studies and most recently completed the second edition of the very successful textbook, The Media Student's Book (1999), with Roy Stafford.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780335200764 |
| ISBN 10 | 0335200761 |
| Title | CINEMA & CULTURAL MODERNITY |
| Author | Gill Branston |
| Series | Issues In Cultural And Media Studies Ser |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Open University Press |
| Year published | 2000-12-16 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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