Film Theory Goes to the Movies

by Jim Collins

Film Theory Goes to the Movies fills the gap in film theory literature which has failed to analyze high-grossing blockbusters. The contributors in this volume, however, discuss such popular films as The Silence of the Lambs, Dances With Wolves, Terminator II, Pretty Woman, Truth or Dare, Mystery Train , and Jungle Fever .

They employ a variety of critical approaches, from industry analysis to reception study, to close readings informed by feminist, deconstructive and postmodernist theory, as well as recent developments in African American and gay and lesbian criticism. An important introduction to contemporary Hollywood, this anthology will be of interest to those involved in the fields of film theory, literary theory, popular culture, and women's studies.

Genres: Film, Nonfiction

320 pages, Hardcover

First published December 21, 1992

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The author of "Good To Great" and "Built to Last" is listed in GoodReads as James C. Collins.

Reviews

[Liquidlasagna · Rating 3 out of 5]

You finally have 'film theory' tackling the most popular things in the cinema

unfortunately some the approaches are the worst possible, but if you can ignore the fads of post-modernism, and gay stuff and feminist musings and multiculturalism and race, there are a few things here....

hey Pauline Kael can even have a bad day too, even if she wrote nonsense about Citizen Kane, in a moment of stupidity.

Wake me when they talk abou the semiotic panopticon of white priv.. oh never mind

[Jeff Mancum · Rating 4 out of 5]

Have been picking this up and then putting it back down for the past two years and have essentially been reading it an essay at a time. A little biased as a cinema studies student whose tail wags at any mention of film theory but I loved it.