ABSTRACT

This revised edition of a standard textbook combines an examination of the cinema and television industries with a detailed analysis of their aesthetic and semiotic characteristics. John Ellis draws on his experience as an independent television producer to provide a comprehensive and challenging overview of the place of film, television and video in our daily lives and their future prospects in a changing media landscape.

chapter 1|20 pages

Preliminaries

part |2 pages

Part I Cinema

chapter 2|15 pages

Cinema as a cultural event

chapter 3|24 pages

Cinema as image and sound

chapter 4|15 pages

Cinema narration

chapter 5|14 pages

The cinema spectator

chapter 6|18 pages

Stars as cinematic phenomenon

part |2 pages

Part II Broadcast TV

chapter 7|16 pages

Broadcast TV as cultural form

chapter 8|18 pages

Broadcast TV as sound and image

chapter 9|15 pages

Broadcast TV narration

chapter 10|13 pages

The broadcast TV viewer

part |2 pages

Part III The institutions of cinema and broadcast TV

chapter 11|8 pages

The current situation

chapter 12|11 pages

The organisation of film production

chapter 13|17 pages

The dominance of the Hollywood film

chapter 14|13 pages

The organisation of broadcast TV production

chapter 15|27 pages

Cinema and broadcast TV together

chapter 17|15 pages

Postface (1992)