Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Fatal Attraction and Scarface 2. Narrative Structure: Jurassic Park and Rashomon 3. Formal Analysis: Rules Of The Game and The Sixth Sense 4. Authorship: The Searchers and Jungle Fever 5. Genres: Murder, My Sweet and Gunfight at the OK Corral 6. Series, Sequels, and Remakes: Goldfinger and Psycho 1960 and 1998 7. Actors and Stars: Morocco and Dirty Harry 8. Audiences and Reception: A Woman Of Paris and The Crying Game 9. Film and the Other Arts: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Nosferatu 10. Film and its Relation to Radio and Television: Richard Diamond: Private Detective, Peter Gunn, and Victor/Victoria 11. Realism and Theories Of Film: Potemkin and Umberto D 12. Gender and Sexuality: The Silence of the Lambs and American Gigolo 13. Race: Out Of The Past, LA Confidential, and Boyz N The Hood) 14. Class: Pretty Woman and The People Under the Stairs 15. Citizen Kane: An Analysis: Citizen Kane 16. Digital Technology and Film: The Matrix and Timecode Glossary Index
Peter Lehman is Professor of Humanities at Arizona State University. He is author of Blake Edwards (1981), Defining Cinema (1997), Running Scared: Masculinity and the Representation of the Male Body (1993) and editor of Close Viewings: An Anthology of New Film Criticism (1990). William Luhr is Professor of English at Saint Peter's College. He is author of The Maltese Falcon: John Huston, Director (1995) and Returning to the Scene: Blake Edwards (1989).
"Lehman and Luhr deftly balance two tasks: to introduce the multiplicity of approaches to film study and to provide close readings that show how various theories can illuminate specific films. The basic discourses about cinema are introduced in a format and language that is neither condescending nor oversimplified. The authors respect film's unique language but also suggest the broader cultural and social issues that are raised by the medium. Thinking About Movies can be recommended not only for the classroom but for autodidacts who want one readable introduction to the field." Elisabeth Weis, Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, CUNY "This inspiring book lets students apprehend the films of the past by revealing the core of contemporary films in their lives. Thinking about Movies engages new students and knowledgeable aficionados in a dialogue about the aesthetic and social facets of the cinema that affect all of our thoughts and experiences." Don Staples, University of North Texas
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