Film theory and criticism

Oxford University Press

2009

xvii, 905 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index

9780195365627

from Film technique. [On editing] / Vsevolod Pudovkin -- from Film form. Beyond the shot [the cinematographic principle and the ideogram] ; Dramaturgy of film form [the dialectical approach to film form] / Sergei Eisenstein -- from What is cinema? Evolution of the language of cinema / André Bazin -- Toward a non-bourgeois camera style / Brian Henderson -- from Film language. Some points in the semiotics of cinema ; Problems of denotation in the fiction film / Christian Metz -- Semiotics and the cinema : Metz and Wollen / Gilbert Harman -- Discourse of pictures : iconicity and film studies / Stephen Prince -- Tutor-code of classical cinema / Daniel Dayan -- Against "the system of the suture" / William Rothman -- Spectator-in-the-text : the rhetoric of Stagecoach / Nick Browne -- from Theory of film. Basic concepts / Siegfried Kracauer -- from What is cinema? Ontology of the photographic image ; Myth of total cinema / André Bazin -- from Film as art. Complete film / Rudolf Arnheim -- Apparatus metapsychological approaches to the impression of reality in cinema / Jean-Louis Baudry -- from Mystifying movies. Jean-Louis Baudry and "The apparatus" / Noël Carroll -- from Vision and visuality. Modernizing vision / Jonathan Crary -- from Cinema 1 and Cinema 2. Preface to the English edition ; Origin of the crisis : Italian neo-realism and the French new wave ; Beyond the movement-image / Gilles Deleuze --Style and medium in the motion pictures / Erwin Panofsky -- from Theory of film. Establishment of physical existence / Siegfried Kracauer -- from Theory of the film. Close-up ; Face of man / Béla Balász -- from Film as art. Film and reality ; Making of a film / Rudolf Arnheim -- from Philosophical problems of classical film theory. Specificity thesis / Noël Carroll -- from Film/cinema/movie. Projection / Gerald Mast -- from The world viewed. Photograph and screen ; Audience, actor, and star ; Types, cycles as genres ; Ideas of origin / Stanley Cavell -- Statement on sound / Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevelod Pudovkin, Grigori Alexandrov -- Voice in the cinema : the articulation of body and space / Mary Ann Doane -- Technology and aesthetics of film sound / John Belton -- from What is cinema? Theater and cinema / André Bazin -- from The world in a frame. Acting : stage vs. screen / Leo Braudy -- from Film form. Dickens, Griffith, and ourselves ; [Dickens, Griffith, and film today] / Sergei Eisenstein -- from Concepts in film theory. Adaptation / Dudley Andrew -- from Novel to film. Backgrounds / Brian McFarlane -- from D.W. Griffith and the origins of American narrative film. Narrative discourse and the narrator system / Tom Gunning -- Film music and narrative agency / Jerrold Levinson -- Godard and counter cinema ; Vent d'est / Peter Wollen -- from Poetics of cinema. Cognition and comprehension : viewing and forgetting in Mildred Pierce / David Bordwell --Notes on the auteur theory in 1962 / Andrew Sarris -- from Signs and meaning in the cinema. Auteur theory [Howard Hawks and John Ford] / Peter Wollen -- Face of Garbo / Roland Barthes -- from The material ghost. [On Keaton and Chaplin] / Gilberto Perez -- From Stars / Richard Dyer -- from Acting in the cinema. Katherine Hepburn in Holiday / James Naremore -- from From reverence to rape. Female stars of the 1940s / Molly Haskell -- How Howard Hawks brought Baby up : an Apologia for the studio system / Richard B. Jewell -- from The genius of the system. "Whole equation of pictures" / Thomas Schatz -- from The world in a frame. Genre : the conventions of connection / Leo Braudy -- Semantic/syntactic approach to film genre / Rick Altman -- from Hollywood genres. Film genre and the genre film / Thomas Schatz -- Gangster as tragic hero / Robert Warshow -- Notes on film noir / Paul Schrader -- Ideology, genre, auteur / Robin Wood -- Film bodies : gender, genre, and excess / Linda Williams -- Terror of pleasure : the contemporary horror film and postmodern theory / Tania Modleski -- Feminist frameworks for horror films / Cynthia A. Freeland -- Art cinema as a mode of film practice / David Bordwell --Work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction / Walter Benjamin -- Cinema/ideology/criticism / Jean-Luc Comolli, Jean Narboni -- from The imaginary signifier. Identification, mirror ; Passion for perceiving ; Disavowal, fetishism / Christian Metz -- Visual pleasure and narrative cinema / Laura Mulvey -- from The women who knew too much : Hitchcock and feminist theory. Master's dollhouse : Rear window / Tania Modleski -- Aesthetic of astonishment : early film and the (in)credulous spectator / Tom Gunning -- Colonialism, racism, and representation : an introduction / Robert Stam, Louise Spence -- Black spectatorship : problems of identification and resistance / Manthia Diawara -- from The language of new media. Synthetic realism and its discontents ; Synthetic image and its subject ; Digital cinema and the history of a moving image / Lev Manovich -- End of cinema : multimedia and technological change / Anne Friedberg -- from Change mummified / Philip Rosen -- Impact of digital technologies on film aesthetics / Michael Allen -- Tales of upward mobility : the new verticality and digital special effects / Kristen Whissel -- Reconceptualizing national cinema(s) / Stephen Crofts -- Difficulty of being radical : the discipline of film studies and the postcolonial world order / Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto -- Issues in world cinema / Wimal Dissanayake.

Review: "Since publication of the first edition in 1974, Leo Braudy and Marshall Cohen's Film Theory and Criticism has been the most widely used and cited anthology of critical writings about film. Now in its seventh edition, this landmark text continues to offer outstanding coverage of more than a century of thought and writing about the movies. Incorporating classic texts by pioneers in film theory - including Rudolf Arnheim, Siegfried Kracauer, and Andre Bazin - and cutting-edge essays by such contemporary scholars as David Bordwell, Tania Modleski, Thomas Schatz, and Richard Dyer, the book examines both historical and theoretical viewpoints on the subject." "Building upon the wide range of selections and the extensive historical coverage that marked previous editions, this new compilation stretches from the earliest attempts to define the cinema to the most recent efforts to place film in the contexts of psychology, sociology, and philosophy, and to explore issues of gender and race. Reorganized into eight sections - each comprising the major fields of critical controversy and analysis - this new edition features reformulated introductions and biographical headnotes that contextualize the readings, making the text more accessible than ever to students, film enthusiasts, and general readers alike. The seventh edition also integrates exciting new material on feminist theory, queer cinema, and global cinema, as well as a new section, "Digitization and Globalization," which engages important recent developments in technology and world cinema." "A wide-ranging critical and historical survey, Film Theory and Criticism remains the leading text for undergraduate courses in film theory. It is also ideal for graduate courses in film theory and criticism."

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