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    Book SynopsisAn excellent collection of provocative and compelling debates, expertly and elegantly arranged. Essays new and old form a dynamic and accessible portrait of ideas foundational to contemporary thinking about film. This book is sure to inspire.Haidee Wasson, Concordia University, MontrealMarc Furstenau retraces the most important issues in film theory, and makes them interact with the current debate on cinema and post-cinema. A historical legacy becomes a living source - and the site of a passionate debate.Francesco Casetti, Catholic University of Milan and Yale University.The Film Theory Reader brings together a range of key theoretical texts, organized thematically to emphasise the development of specific critical concepts and theoretical models in the field of film theory.Each section presents well-known or significant texts, which have introduced a particularly influential concept, followed by texts that have developed or eTrade Review"An excellent collection of provocative and compelling debates, expertly and elegantly arranged. Essays new and old form a dynamic and accessible portrait of ideas foundational to contemporary thinking about film. This book is sure to inspire."Haidee Wasson, Concordia University, Montreal"Marc Furstenau retraces the most important issues in film theory, and makes them interact with the current debate on cinema and post-cinema. A historical legacy becomes a living source - and the site of a passionate debate."Francesco Casetti, Catholic University of Milan and Yale University.Table of ContentsSelected Contents: Acknowledgements. Introduction 1. Film Theory: A History of Debates Marc Furstenau. I. The Future of Film Theory: A Debate 2. An Elegy for Theory D.N. Rodowick 3. Theory, Philosophy, and Film Studies Malcolm Turvey. II. Arguments with Early Film Theory 4. The Psychology of the Photoplay Hugo Münsterberg 5. Film/Mind Analogies: The Case of Hugo Münsterberg Noël Carroll 6. Visible Man, or the Culture of Film Béla Bálazs 7. Bálazs: Realist or Modernist? Malcolm Turvey 8. The Ontology of the Photographic Image André Bazin 9. The Evolution of the Language of Cinema André Bazin 10. Rethinking Bazin: Ontology and Realist Aesthetics Daniel Morgan. III. Classic Debates 11. The Cinema: Language or Language System? Christian Metz 12. The Semiology of the Cinema Peter Wollen 13. Recapitulation of Images and Signs Gilles Deleuze 14. Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema Laura Mulvey 15. Is the Gaze Male? E. Ann Kaplan 16. Afterthoughts on ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’ Laura Mulvey 17. The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators bell hooks. IV. Recent Arguments 18. Digital Cinema and the History of a Moving Image Lev Manovich 19. Moving Away from the Index: Cinema and the Impression of Reality Tom Gunning 20. The End of Cinema: Multimedia and Technological Change Anne Friedberg 21. Digital Cinema: A False Revolution John Belton

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    Book SynopsisIntroduced one hundred years ago, film has since become part of our lives. For the past century, however, the experience offered by fiction films has remained a mystery. Questions such as why adult viewers cry and shiver, and why they care at all about fictional characters -- while aware that they contemplate an entirely staged scene -- are still unresolved. In addition, it is unknown why spectators find some film experiences entertaining that have a clearly aversive nature outside the cinema. These and other questions make the psychological status of emotions allegedly induced by the fiction film highly problematic. Earlier attempts to answer these questions have been limited to a few genre studies. In recent years, film criticism and the theory of film structure have made use of psychoanalytic concepts which have proven insufficient in accounting for the diversity of film induced affect. In contrast, academic psychology -- during the century of its existence -- has mTrade Review"Tan offers this book as 'a contribution to the psychology of film' by trying 'to further our understanding of the emotional experience that films constitute for the viewer'...to describe what an emotion produced by film is, and to open strands for empirical research into its determinants."—CRT Vol. 16, #3-39..."This may limit the book's impact among scholars in the humanities, but it also makes the book invaluable as a kind of handbook for anyone who is interested in the subject of emotions and film."—Journal of Communication, Winter 1997Table of ContentsContents: Preface. Introduction. The Psychological Functions of Film Viewing. Film and Emotion: Theoretical Background. The Structure of Interest. Thematic Structures and Interest. Character Structure, Empathy, and Interest. The Psychological Affect Structure of the Feature Film. Conclusion: The Feature Film as an Emotion Machine.

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    Table of ContentsPervasive Animation. An Introduction Suzanne Buchan SECTION 1: Preludes and Innovations 1. Expanded Animation: A Small Genealogy of the Idea and Praxis that Breathe a Soul into Dead Things Siegfried Zielinski 2. The Transforming Image: The Roots of Animation in Metamorphosis and Motion Tom Gunning SECTION 2: Material Culture 3. Animation’s Petrified Unrest Esther Leslie 4. Ecocritique and the Materialities of Animation Sean Cubitt SECTION 3: Life and Non-Life 5. Coming to Life: Cartoon Animals and Natural Philosophy Thomas Lamarre 6. A Cinema of Apprehension: A Third Entelechy of the Vitalist Machine Suzanne Buchan 7. The East Asian Post-human Prometheus: Animated Mechanical 'Others' Joon Yang Kim SECTION 4: History, Documentary and Truth 8. Socialimagestics and Cinemasymbiosis: The Materiality of A-Realism Mark Bartlett 9. ReAnimator: Embodied History, and the Post-Cinema Trace in Ken Jacobs' 'Temporal Composites' Jeffrey Skoller 10. Animated Documentaries: Aesthetics, Politics and Viewer Engagement Nea Ehrlich SECTION 5: Display, Process and Practice 11. Take the B Train: Reconstructing the Proto-cinematic Apparatus George Griffin 12. Spaces of Wonder: Animation and Museology Edwin Carels 13. Animation Studies as an Interdisciplinary Teaching Field Paul Ward

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