The Oxford Handbook of Film and Media Studies

Robert Kolker is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Maryland and Adjunct Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia. He is the author of numerous works on film and media, including The Altering Eye; Film, Form, and Culture; and Media Studies: An Introductory Textbook. He is currently at work on The Extraordinary Image, a prequel to his seminal study A Cinema of Loneliness.

Introduction; 1. Jay David Bolter, Digital Media and the Future of Filmic Narrative; 2. Brian Price, The Last Laoco:on ; 3. Devin Orgeron, Visual Media and the Tyranny of the Real ; 4. Francis Guerin, Radical Aspirations Historicized: The European Commitment to Political Documentary; 5. Jeannene M. Przyblyski, Loss of Light: The Long Shadow of Photography in the Digital Age; 6. Marsha Orgeron, Media Celebrity in the Age of the Image ; 7. Paul Young, Film Genre Theory and Contemporary Media: Description, Interpretation, Intermediality; 8. Toby Miller and Mariana Johnson, The Who, What, When, Where, And How-Gilda Says Textual Analysis Needs To Learn From Political Economy And Ethnography; 9. William Uricchio, Television's First 75 Years: The Interpretive Flexibility Of A Medium In Transition; 10. Tara McPherson, "The end of TV as we know it": Convergence, Anxiety, Generic Innovation, and the Case of 24; 11. John Caldwell, Screen Practice and Conglomeration: How Reflexivity and Conglomeration Fuel Each Other; 12. Evans Chan, The Chinese Action Image and Postmodernity; 13. Joseph Schaub, When Cute Becomes Scary: The Young Female in Japanese Horror Cinema; 14. Gina Marchetti, Asian Film and Digital Culture; 15. Manjunath Pendakur, Popular Cinema and "New" Media in India; 16. Cristina Venegas, Dreaming With Open Eyes: Latin American Media in the Digital Age; 17. Andrew Flibbert, The Globalization of Filmmaking in Latin America and the Middle East; 18. David Golumbia, Computers and Cultural Studies; 19. Warren Buckland, Film and Media Studies Pedagogy; 20. Peter Jaszi, Copyright, Fair Use, and Motion Pictures; Appendix I. Tom Bernard, Evolution of Modern Day Independent Film Making; Appendix II. Lee Berger & Richard Hollander, The Digital Revolution