Theory

Film teachers and students will welcome this new anthology, which makes available in one source a comprehensive selection of recent theoretical work on fi...

A pioneer in the field, Christian Metz applies insights of structural linguistics to the language of film. "The semiology of film . . . can be held to dat...

Reflexivity refers to those moments in fiction and film when the work suddenly calls attention to itself as a fictional construct. For example, in literatur...

Pierre–Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) stands out among the great artists for his willingness to paint pictures that are straightforwardly pretty and charmi...