Description
Book Synopsis* Provides a major collection of specially commissioned work by experts in the field of film studies. * Represents material under a variety of headings, including class, race, gender, queer theory, nation, stars, ethnography, authorship, and spectatorship.
Trade Review"A vital contribution to contemporary studies in film and culture."
Journal of Film and Video
"[Offers] new and diverse directions which film theory can and must address … pivotal." Scope: The Online Journal of Film Studies
Table of Contents1. Introduction: Toby Miller.
2. Authorship: James Naremore.
3. Genre: Sarah Berry.
4. Enunciation and Narration: André Gaudreault and François Jost.
5. Film Editing: Lucy Fischer.
6. Film Semiotics: Warren Buckland.
7. Cognitivism: Greg Currie.
8. Psychoanalysis: Richard Allen.
9. Spectatorship and Subjectivity: E. Deidre Pribram.
10. Laura Mulvey Meets Cathrine Tramell Meets the She-Man: Counter-History, Reclamation, and Incongruity in Lesbian, Gay, and Queer Film and Media Criticism: Julia Erhart.
11. Is There Class in this Text?: The Repression of Class in Film and Cultural Studies : David James.
12. Culture Industries: Douglas Kellner.
13. The Political Economy of Film: Janet Wasko.
14. The Work of Theory in the Age of Digital Transformation: Henry Jenkins.
15. Cultural Exchange: Tom O'Regan.
16. Anthropology for the World: Mass Media: Faye Ginsburg.
17. Psycho's Bad Timing: The Sensual Obsessions of Film Theory: Toby Miller.
18. Historical Allegory: Ismail Xavier.
19. Every Picture Tells a Story: José Guadalupe Posada's Photocinematic Graphic Art: Charles Ramirez Berg.
20. On "Historical Poetics," Narrative, and Interpretation: Ira Bhaskar.
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