Features twenty chapters by leading scholars and industry professionals

Yields fresh perspectives on film and media in the U.S., Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East

Presents an authoritative assessment of developments in the U.S. and abroad

Comprised of twenty chapters by leading scholars and industry professionals, The Oxford Handbook of Film and Media Studies yields fresh perspectives on film and media in the U.S., Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East. This wide-ranging compendium surveys such topics as the changing concept of "realism" in film, the European political documentary, genre theory, and more. Also exploring developments in media studies, this Handbook features chapters that thoroughly examine topics as diverse as copyright, globalization, television programming, video game genres, the ideologies of media, and movie-going in India. Comprehensive and in-depth, The Oxford Handbook of Film and Media Studies combines cutting-edge scholarship on cinema and media in their many forms to present an authoritative assessment of developments in the U.S. and abroad.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Jay David Bolter, Digital Media and the Future of Filmic Narrative
2. Brian Price, The Last Laoco:on
3. Devin Orgeron, Visual Media and the Tyranny of the Real
4. Francis Guerin, Radical Aspirations Historicized: The European Commitment to Political Documentary
5. Jeannene M. Przyblyski, Loss of Light: The Long Shadow of Photography in the Digital Age
6. Marsha Orgeron, Media Celebrity in the Age of the Image
7. Paul Young, Film Genre Theory and Contemporary Media: Description, Interpretation, Intermediality
8. Toby Miller and Mariana Johnson, The Who, What, When, Where, And How-Gilda Says Textual Analysis
Needs To Learn From Political Economy And Ethnography
9. William Uricchio, Television's First 75 Years: The Interpretive Flexibility Of A Medium In Transition
10. Tara McPherson, "The end of TV as we know it": Convergence, Anxiety, Generic Innovation, and the Case of 24
11. John Caldwell, Screen Practice and Conglomeration: How Reflexivity and Conglomeration Fuel Each Other
12. Evans Chan, The Chinese Action Image and Postmodernity
13. Joseph Schaub, When Cute Becomes Scary: The Young Female in Japanese Horror Cinema
14. Gina Marchetti, Asian Film and Digital Culture
15. Manjunath Pendakur, Popular Cinema and "New" Media in India
16. Cristina Venegas, Dreaming With Open Eyes: Latin American Media in the Digital Age
17. Andrew Flibbert, The Globalization of Filmmaking in Latin America and the Middle East
18. David Golumbia, Computers and Cultural Studies
19. Warren Buckland, Film and Media Studies Pedagogy
20. Peter Jaszi, Copyright, Fair Use, and Motion Pictures
Appendix I. Tom Bernard, Evolution of Modern Day Independent Film Making
Appendix II. Lee Berger & Richard Hollander, The Digital Revolution

Edited by Robert P. Kolker, Professor Emeritus of English, University of Maryland, College Park

Robert P. Kolker, Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland, taught cinema studies for almost 50 years. He is author of A Cinema of Loneliness; The Extraordinary Image: Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick and the Reimagining of Cinema; Triumph over Containment: American Film in the 1950s; and Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making his Final Film (with Nathan Abrams) and editor of 2001: A Space Odyssey: New Essays.

Contributors:

Lee Berger
Tom Bernard
Jay David Bolter
Warren Buckland
John T. Caldwell
Evans Chan
Andrew Flibbert
David Golumbia
Frances Guerin
Richard Hollander
Peter Jaszi
Mariana Johnson
Robert P. Kolker
Gina Marchetti
Tara McPherson
Toby Miller
Devin Orgeron
Marsha Orgeron
Manjunath Pendakur
Brian Price
Jeannene M. Przyblyski
Joseph Christopher Schaub
William Uricchio
Cristina Venegas
Paul Young