1st Edition

Image and Influence Studies in the Sociology of Film

By Andrew Tudor Copyright 1974
264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

This text outlines what sociologists need to know of the nature of communication and of mass culture, while also looking in some empirical detail at the workings of the Hollywood community and the psychology of the star system. It explores trends such as attempts to adapt semiology and psycholinguistics to our understanding of film ‘language’, using them to develop a paradigm for film analysis.... Read more

Preface  1. Forthcoming Attractions  2. Patterns of Communication  3. Movie Communicators  4. Movie Audiences  5. Movie Languages  6. Patterns of Culture  7. Cinema and Society: Film Movements  8. Cinema and Society: Popular Genres  9. Patterns of Change

Biography

Andrew Tudor