Thinking About Movies

Watching, Questioning, Enjoying

Authors William Luhr and Peter Lehman

"Thinking About Movies" Third Edition is a comprehensive guide for students and movie lovers who want to learn how to watch movies critically and analytically. Intended for the beginner, the text offers the critical building blocks required to understand film as an important narrative and cultural form.

  • Guides readers through basic approaches to film analysis such as authorship, genre, race, class, gender, film theory, audience and reception.
  • Updated to include discussion of a diverse selection of classic and recent films, from "Citizen Kane" and "Murder, My Sweet" to "Crash" and "King Kong."
  • Features new coverage of important current trends in the industry, and recent developments in film theory and criticism.
  • Accompanied by a website at www.blackwellpublishing.com/lehman featuring resources for both academics and students.

Bio

Peter Lehman is a professor in the Department of English at Arizona State University.

Praise for this book

What is most striking is the structure of the text. [Its] relationship to other media is also a welcome addition to this study. 'Thinking About Movies' is an effective text for an introductory film course at the college level. It offers many good insights, and is filled with interesting essays on a variety of cinematic genres.

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Date published
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN
978-1405154031
Genres
Humanities, Arts
College or unit
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of English

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