The Film Cultures Reader (Hardcover)

Contents:
Woollacott Texts and their readings 2. Annette Kuhn Women's genres 3. Judith Mayne Paradoxes of Spectatorship 4. Janet Staiger Reception studies in Film and Television Part 2: Technologies 5. Edward Buscombe Sound and colour 6. Steve Neale Colour and film aesthetics 7. Richard Dyer Lighting for whiteness 8. Gianluca Sergi A cry in the dark: the role of post-classical filmm sound 9. Stephen Prince True Lies: perceptual realism, digital images and film theory 10. Barbara Creed The cyberstar: digital pleasures and the end of the Unconscious Part 3: Industries 11. Tom O'Regan A National Cinema 12. John Hill British cinema as a national cinema: Production, audience and representation 13. Stepehen Teo Postmodernism and the end of Hong Kong cinema 14. Thomas Schatz The new Hollywood 15. Tino Balio 'A major presence in all the world's important markets': the globalisation of Hollywood in the 1990s Part 4: Meanings and pleasures 16. Richard Dyer Monroe and Sexuality: Desirability 17. P. David Marshall The cinematic apparatus and the construction of the film celebrity 18. Jane Feuer Spectators and spectacles 19. Stella Bruzzi Desire and the costume film: Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Age of Innocence, The Piano 20. Tania Modleski The Terror of Pleasure: the contemporary horror film and postmodern theory 21. Jim Collins Genericity in the 90s: Eclectic irony and the new sincerity Part 5: Identities 22. Yvonne Tasker Action heroines in the 1980s: the limits of 'musculinity' 23. Sabrina Barton Your Self Storage: Female investigation and male performativity in the woman's psychothriller 24. Chris Straayer The Hypothetical Lesbian Heroine in Narrative Feature Film 25. Susan Jeffords Can Masculinity be Terminated? 26. Issac Julien and Kobena Mercer De Margin and De Centre 27. Ella Shohart and Robert Stam The imperial imaginary Part 6: Audiences and Consumption 28. Justin Wyatt High Concept and market research: Movie marketing by the numbers 29. Miriam Hansen Charmeleon and Catalyst: The cinema as an alternative public sphere 30. Jackie Stacey Hollywood Cinema - the great escape 31. Jacqueline Bobo Watching The Color Purple: Two Interviews 32. Mark Jancovich 'A Real Shocker': authenticity, genre and the struggle for distinction