{"product_id":"from-antz-to-titanic-martin-barker-9780745315799","title":"From Antz to Titanic: Reinventing Film Analysis","description":"\u003cp\u003eEverybody analyses films. Ordinary viewers, chatting on the way home afterwards. Reviewers, telling us just enough to tempt or put off. Critics, 'situating' films for us. Moralists, hunting for the (harmful) message. So what exactly is it that film academics do that's different? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMartin Barker and Thomas Austin provide a jargon-free, accessible and student-friendly introduction to film analysis. They begin with a discussion about audience and a detailed case-study on four conflicting analyses of Capra's It's A Wonderful Life. The authors examine a range of popular Hollywood films in a variety of genres, including Titanic, Deep Impact, Sleepless in Seattle, The Lion King, Starship Troopers and The Usual Suspects, and provide vivid demonstrations of what can and can't be achieved with close textual analysis. The book ends by proposing a list of measures for assessing the adequacy of film analyses: measures intended to lay the basis of a way of doing film analysis which goes beyond theoretically predetermined and often obscurantist assertions. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExplicitly rejecting much of the theoretical baggage that dogs contemporary film analysis, Barker and Austin strip the subject down to its bare essentials. The result is a provocative and timely re-examination of many of the basic tenets in film theory and analysis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Martin Barker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0745315798\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780745315799\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pluto Press (UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/20\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.39h x 5.26w x 0.62d","brand":"Martin Barker","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48453374279935,"sku":"9780745315799","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7136ca68-7185-4051-88f6-0260c901fc77.jpg?v=1777299901","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/from-antz-to-titanic-martin-barker-9780745315799","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}