ABSTRACT

Film and Television Analysis is especially designed to introduce undergraduate students to the most important qualitative methodologies used to study film and television.

The methodologies covered include:

  • ideological analysis
  • auteur theory
  • genre theory
  • semiotics and structuralism
  • psychoanalysis and apparatus theory
  • feminism
  • postmodernism
  • cultural studies (including reception and audience studies)
  • contemporary approaches to race, nation, gender, and sexuality.

With each chapter focusing on a distinct methodology, students are introduced to the historical developments of each approach, along with its vocabulary, significant scholars, key concepts and case studies.

Other features include:

  • Over 120 color images throughout
  • Questions for discussion at the end of each chapter
  • Suggestions for further reading
  • A glossary of key terms.

Written in a reader-friendly manner Film and Television Analysis is a vital textbook for students encountering these concepts for the first time.

chapter 2|24 pages

Concepts of ideology

chapter 3|20 pages

Semiotics, structuralism, and beyond

chapter 4|20 pages

Authorship and the auteur theory

chapter 5|22 pages

Film and television genres

chapter 6|22 pages

Psychoanalysis (part one): Basic concepts

chapter 9|28 pages

Film, television, and the postmodern

chapter 10|23 pages

Cultural studies and reception

chapter 11|24 pages

Audiences and fandoms