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Edgar & Sedgwick — Cultural Theory: The Key Concepts

Edgar & Sedgwick

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Edgar & Sedgwick, Cultural Theory: The Key Concepts.

Good for

Not yet written up. The measured coverage below says what this book is dense on; the judgement about when to reach for it is still to come.

In the library

Held in Reel, the local research library of scanned and indexed film books. 4 parts, 1,336 indexed passages. Page numbering is auto-checked.

Cite passages from this book as ctk <page> — for example ctk 214.

Strongest on

Measured, not guessed. Each figure is how much denser this book is on a concept than the library average — so common words don't crowd out real specialisms.

Structure — 4.9× the library average (247 passages)
Themes — 4.0× the library average (169 passages)
Conflict — 2.1× the library average (157 passages)
Values — 1.7× the library average (111 passages)
Acting — 1.4× the library average (179 passages)

Go on, then

source Aaron Baker — A Companion to Martin Scorsese Aaron Baker (ed.) (Wiley Blackwell)
source Barsam & Monahan — Looking at Movies: An Introduction to Film Barsam and Monahan: the most current of the introductions, strong on sound, genre as industry, and the MacGuffin.
source Boggs & Petrie — The Art of Watching Films Boggs and Petrie's classroom text: plain analytical questions, a working glossary, and the flat/round and static/dynamic character pairs.
source Bruce Block — The Visual Story: Creating the Visual Structure of Film, TV and Digital Media Bruce Block's practitioner's grammar of the image: contrast and affinity, the visual components, and story structure drawn as a graph.
source Christopher Kenworthy — Shoot Like Scorsese Christopher Kenworthy (Michael Wiese Productions)
source David Bordwell — Narration in the Fiction Film Bordwell's theory of narration. Only the Soviet montage chapter is in the library — read the shelf mark before citing.