Film as Social Practice

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by Graeme Turner

Type: Studies
Subject: Sociology
Keywords: social aspects
Publishing date: 2006
Publisher: Routledge; 4th edition
Language: English

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Paperback • 272 pages
6 x 9 ½ inches (15.5 x 24 cm)

ISBN-10 ISBN-13

0-415-37514-2
978-0-415-37514-6

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Book Presentation:
This fourth edition of our bestselling classic text has been comprehensively updated and revised to include contemporary film analysis and recent films.

With a focus on contemporary popular cinema and examples from Classical Hollywood, Graeme Turner examines the social and cultural aspects of film from audiences and ideologies to exhibition and technology.

This fourth edition now includes:
new sections dealing with debates about spectacle and special effects an extended treatment of sound and its contribution to cinema
film theory’s discussion of the representation of race and ethnicity
a thorough update of individual film references
a revised applications chapter that includes new contemporary examples
new illustrations from contemporary popular cinema.

Students of film studies, film practice and film theory will find this a welcome addition to their degree course studies.

About the Author:
Graeme Turner is Professor of Cultural Studies and Director of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. He has published many books on media and cultural studies including British Cultural Studies: An Introduction, Understanding Celebrity and The Film Cultures Reader.

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