Peter Lehman - Thinking about Movies: Watching, Questioning, Enjoying

1. Chapter 01
2. Chapter 02
3. Chapter 03
4. Chapter 04
5. Chapter 05
6. Chapter 06
7. Chapter 07
8. Chapter 08
9. Chapter 09
10. Chapter 10
11. Chapter 11
12. Chapter 12
13. Chapter 13
14. Chapter 14
15. Chapter 15
16. Chapter 16

Praise for Thinking about Movies: Watching, Questioning, Enjoying

This thoroughly revised and uptodate edition of Lehmans and Luhrs celebrated textbook will continue to inform and inspire new generations of students and researchers of film and media. It combines a commendable clarity of argument with incisive and innovative close analysis of key illustrative examples. The book covers a wide range of key aspects of film and media studies (narrative, analysis, authorship, stars, genres, seriality or reception) and key theoretical issues and frameworks. Every student of film and media should read this book.

Professor Santiago FouzHernndez, Durham University, UK

This incomparable introductory film textbook is one that I truly want to read and continue readingeven as a film professor who has used a number of the most lauded texts on the market over my many years of teaching. In this intelligently structured book, every chapter invites film students and professors, alike, to embark on an engagingly coherent yet openended journey through the fundamental roads of film aesthetics, form, style, history, andquite cruciallythrough the unpredictable avenues of films mediating role in representing and responding to varied historical, cultural, and industrial contexts. Posing many honest, and often, unanswerable questionsyet within strongly articulated and informative frameworks for analysisall chapters place fascinating films in dialogue with each other and encourage readers, at whatever level, to consider and reconsider their responses to and understanding of the traditional cinema and its emerging iterations in the digital age.

Cynthia Lucia, Rider University, US and Cineaste

Filled with extremely helpful images and delightfully detailed, insightful analyses of films and other media, Thinking About Movies shows two of our most eminent film scholars in excellent form. Besides its obvious use for introductory cinema studies courses, this engaging, highly readable text could also prove valuable in courses dedicated to close textual analysis, the politics of representation, and film theory, and should have considerable interest for general readers as well. This new edition explores issues of new technology, globalization and more with the same thoughtfulness and erudition as the rest of the book. An impressive achievement, designed and certain to provoke healthy discussion.

David Lugowski, Manhattanville College, US

FOURTH EDITION

PETER LEHMAN and WILLIAM LUHR

This edition first published 2018
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Edition History
Harcourt Brace & Company (1e, 1999); Blackwell Publishing Ltd (2e, 2003); Blackwell Publishing Ltd (3e, 2008)

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Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

Names: Lehman, Peter author. | Luhr, William author.
Title: Thinking about movies : watching, questioning, enjoying / Peter Lehman, William Luhr.
Description: Fourth edition. | Hoboken : Wiley, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Identifiers: LCCN 2017038243 (print) | LCCN 2017042738 (ebook) | ISBN 9781118337561 (pdf) | ISBN 9781118337554 (epub) | ISBN 9781118315446 (pbk.)
Subjects: LCSH: Motion pictures.
Classification: LCC PN1994 (ebook) | LCC PN1994 .L373 2018 (print) | DDC 791.43dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017038243

Cover images: (Retro 1940s Film Noir Detective or Gangster) peepo/iStockphoto;(Man using digital tablet computer) ouh_desire/iStockphoto; (Empty cinema screen with audience) danr13/iStockphoto; (Home theater, hugging couple is watching movies on huge screen) domin_domin/iStockphoto; (Ecommerce Shopping) tolgart/iStockphoto; (World Map) johnason/iStockphoto
Cover design by C. Wallace

For my son, David, with admiration and love
William Luhr

For my grandchildren, Lila and Jonah, with love
Peter Lehman