Overview

This collection of essays examines the ways in which writing and cinema can be studied in relation to each other. A wide range of material is presented, from essays which look at particular films, including The Piano and The English Patient, to discussions of the latest developments in film studies including psychoanalytic film theory and the cultural study of film audiences. Specific topics that the essays address also include: the kinds of writing produced for the cinema industry, advertising, film adaptations of written texts and theatre plays from nineteenth century 'classic' novels to recent cyberpunk science fiction such as Blade Runner and Starship Troopers. The essays deal with existing areas of debate, like questions of authorship and audience, and also break new ground, for example in proposing approaches to the study of writing on the cinema screen. The book includes a select bibliography, and a documents section gives details of a range of films for further study.

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Author:   Jonathan Bignell
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Longman
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.520kg
ISBN:  

9780582357570

ISBN 10:   0582357578
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   09 June 1999
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Part 1 Writing for cinema: ""whose stories you tell"" - writing ""Ken Loach"", John Tulloch in conversation with Rona Munro; questions of authorship - Samuel Beckett and film, Jonathan Bignell; publicists - distribution workers in the pleasure economy of the film industry, Kevin Moloney. Part 2 Writing in cinema: preliminaries for a taxonomy and rhetoric of on-screen writing, Sean Cubitt; writing, cinema and the avant garde - Michael Snow and ""So Is This"", Jim Hillier; inscription in ""This Piano"", Lib Taylor. Part 3 Writing into cinema: the mutinies on HMS Bounty, Robert Giddings; three ""Madame Bovarys"" - Renoir, Minnelli, Chabrol, Alain J.-J. Cohen; the fiction is already there - writing and film in Blair's Britain, Stuart Laing; public spaces and private narratives - plays and films of David Hare, Stephen Lacey; preserving machines - recentering the decentered subject in ""Blade Runner"" and ""Johnny Mnemonic"", Mark Bould; from SF to sci-fi - Paul Verhoeven's ""Starship Troopers"", I.O. Hunter. Part 4 Writing about cinema: writing and reputation - ""The Searchers"" 1956-1976, Douglas Pye; writing on film - practical propositions, Reynold Humphries; writing about specularity and modernity - the case of ""Dancing Lady"", Leighton Grist and David Lusted. Part 5 Documents: audo-visual resources."

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Jonathan Bignell is Professor of Film, Theatre and Television at the University of Reading, UK.

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