Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings

Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings

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Revised And Updated To Incorporate Suggestions From Film Instructors And Critics Nationwide, The Fourth Edition Of This Classic Text Is A Thorough Introduction To The Evolving Aesthetics And Controversies Of Nearly A Century, From The Earliest Attempts To Define The Cinema To The Most Recent Efforts To Place Film In The Context Of Psychology, Sociology, And Philosophy. Building Upon The Wide Range Of Selections And Extensive Historical Coverage That Marked The Previous Editions, 37 Essays Have Been Added. The Editors Have Rewritten Chapter Introductions And Revised Each Section To Show The Impact Of New Thinking On The Continuing Debate Over The Nature Of Film Reality, The Film Image, Film Genre, And The Film Performer. The Sections On Genre, The Film Artist, And The Relation Of Film To The Other Arts Have Been Greatly Expanded. Several Essays Addressing The Issue Of Film Sound Have Also Been Included.--jacket. Pt. 1 Film And Reality -- From Theory Of Film : Basic Concepts / Siegfriend Kracauer -- From From Caligari To Hitler : The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari / Siegfried Kracauer -- From What Is Cinema? : The Myth Of Total Cinema / Andre Bazin -- From What Is Cinema? : De Sica: Metteru-en-scene / Andre Bazin -- From Film As Art : The Complete Film / Rudolf Arnheim -- From Film As Film : Form And Discipline / V. F. Perkins -- Cinematography : The Crative Use Of Reality / Maya Deren -- From Metaphors On Vision / Stan Brakhage -- Theory And Film : Principles Of Realism And Pleasure / Colin Maccabe -- Recent Developments In Feminist Criticism / Christine Gledhill -- (cont.) Pt. 2 Film Language -- From Film Technique : [on Editing] / Vsevolod Pudovkin -- From Film Form : The Cinematographic Principle To The Ideogram, A Dialectic Approach To Film Form / Sergei Eisenstein -- From What Is Cinema? : The Evolution Of The Language Of Cinema / Andre Bazin -- From Film Language : Some Points In The Semiotics Of The Cinema / Christian Metz -- The Tutor-code Of Classical Cinema / Daniel Dayan -- Against The System Of The Suture / William Rothman -- From The Subject Of Semiotics : [on Suture] / Kaja Silverman -- The Spectator-in-the-text : The Rhetoric Of Stagecoach / Nick Browne -- (cont.) Pt. 3 The Film Medium : Image And Sound -- Style And Medium In The Motion Pictures / Erwin Panofsky -- From Theory Of Film : The Establishment Of Physical Existence / Siegfried Kracauer -- From Theory Of The Film : The Close Up / Bela Balazs -- From Theory Of The Film : The Face Of Man / Bela Balazs -- From Film As Art : Film And Reality / Rudolf Arnheim -- From Film As Art : The Making Of A Film / Rudolf Arnheim -- From Philosophical Problems Of Classical Film Theory : The Specificity Thesis / Noel Carroll -- From Film/cinema/movie : Projection / Gerald Mast -- From The World Viewed : Photograph And Screen / Stanley Cavell -- From The World Viewed : Audience, Actor, And Star / Stanley Cavell -- From The World Viewed : Types; Cycles As Genres / Stanley Cavell -- From The World Viewed : Ideas Of Origin / Stanley Cavell -- (cont.) Ideological Effects Of The Basic Cinematographic Apparatus / Jean-louis Baudry -- Aural Objects / Christian Metz -- A Statement [on Sound] / S. M. Eisenstein, V. I. Pudovkin, And G. V. Alexandrov -- Direct Sound: An Interview / Jean-marie Straub And Daniele Huillet -- Technology And Aesthetics Of Film Sound / John Belton -- From Cinema And Sentiment : Voice And Space / Charles Affron -- From Visible Fictions : Broadcast Tv As Sound And Image / John Ellis -- Pt. 4 Film, Theater, And Literature -- From The Film: A Psychological Study : The Means Of The Photoplay / Hugo Munsterberg -- Film And Theater / Susan Sontag -- From What Is Cinema? : Theater And Cinema / Andre Bazin -- From The World In A Frame : Acting : Stage Vs. Screen / Leo Braudy -- From Film Form : Dickens, Griffith, And The Film Today / Sergei Eisenstein -- What Novels Can Do That Films Can't (and Vice Versa) / Seymour Chatman -- From Concepts In Film Theory : Adaptation / Dudley Andrew -- (cont.) Pt. 5 Film Genres -- From The World In A Frame : Genre : The Conventions Of Connection / Leo Braudy -- Movie Chronicle : The Westerner / Robert Warshow -- Social Implications In The Hollywood Genres / Jean-loup Bourget -- Ideology, Genre, Auteur / Robin Wood -- The Self-reflexive Musical And The Myth Of Entertainment / Jane Feuer -- Chinatown And Generic Transformation In Recent American Films / John G. Cawelti -- Tales Of Sound And Fury : Observations On The Family Melodrama / Thomas Elsaesser -- Time And Desire In The Woman's Film / Tania Modleski -- The Mummy's Pool / Bruce Kawin -- When The Woman Looks / Linda Williams -- Pt. 6 The Film Artist -- Notes On Auteur Theory In 1962 / Andrew Sarris -- From Signs And Meaning In The Cinema : The Auteur Theory / Peter Wollen -- The Hollywood Screenwriter / Richard Corliss -- From Visible Fictions : Stars As A Cinematic Phenomenon / John Ellis -- (cont.) From Stars / Richard Dyer -- The Face Of Garbo / Roland Barthes -- From From Reverence To Rape : Female Stars Of The 1940s / Molly Haskell -- From Women And Their Sexuality In The New Film : The Mae West Nobody Knows / Joan Mellen -- From The Genius Of The System : The Whole Equation Of Pictures / Thomas Schatz -- Pt. 7 Film: Psychology, Society, And Ideology -- The Work Of Art In The Age Of Mechanical Reproductions / Walter Benjamin -- Cinema/ideology/criticism / Jean-luc Comolli And Jean Narboni -- The Apparatus: Metapsychological Approaches To The Impression Of Reality In Cinema / Jean-louis Baudry -- From Mystifying Movies : Jean-louis Baudry And The Apparatus / Noel Carroll -- From Magic And Myth Of The Movies : Preface / Parker Tyler -- From The Imaginary Signifier : Identification, Mirror / Christian Metz -- From The Imaginary Signifier : The Passion For Perceiving / Christian Metz -- Visual Pleasure And Narrative Cinema / Laura Mulvey -- Film And The Masquerade : Theorising The Female Spectator / Mary Ann Doane -- Masochism And The Perverse Pleasures Of The Cinema / Gaylyn Studlar. Gerald Mast, Marshall Cohen, Leo Braudy. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 791-797).


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Publisher : Oxford University Press

Author : Cohen, Marshall,Braudy, Leo,Mast, Gerald

Language : English

Edition : 4

Published :1992-04-09

Number Of Pages : 797

Binding : Paperback

ISBN-10 : 0195063988

ISBN-13 : 9780195063981

Item weight : 2.45 lb

Dimensions : 1.7 in x 6.1 in x 9.5 in

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