{"product_id":"film-theory-and-criticism-9780199376896","title":"Film Theory and Criticism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA near-exhaustive collection of essential film writing. The essays contained in Film Theory and Criticism testify not only to the diversity of topics that make up the study of film, but to their increasing relevance in our globalized, digitized age. At nearly 900 pages, there's not a clunker in it.  --John Bruns, College of Charleston It is the best compilation of the widest range of critical approaches that relies on complete reproductions (not truncated extracts) of some of the most influential and provocative theory on film.  --Terri A. Hasseler, Bryant University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  I. FILM LANGUAGE  VSEVOLOD PUDOVKIN  From Film Technique [On Editing]  SERGEI EISENSTEIN  From Film Form Beyond the Shot [The Cinematographic Principle and the Ideogram] The Dramaturgy of Film Form [A Dialectic Approach to Film Form]  ANDRÉ BAZIN  From What is Cinema? The Evolution of the Language of Cinema  CHRISTIAN METZ  From Film Language  Some Points in the Semiotics of Cinema   GILBERT HARMAN  Semiotics and the Cinema: Metz and Wollen  STEPHEN PRINCE The Discourse of Pictures: Iconicity and Film Studies  DANIEL DAYAN  The Tutor-Code of Classical Cinema  WILLIAM ROTHMAN  Against \"The System of Suture\"   II. FILM AND REALITY  SIEGFRIED KRACAUER  From Theory of Film Basic Concepts   ANDRÉ BAZIN  From What is Cinema? The Ontology of the Photographic Image The Myth of Total Cinema De Sica: Metteur-en-scene  RUDOLF ARNHEIM  From Film As Art The Complete Film  JEAN-LOUIS BAUDRY  The Apparatus: Metapsychological Approaches to the Impression of Reality in Cinema   NOEL CARROLL  From Mystifying Movies Jean-Louis Baudry and \"The Apparatus\"   III. THE FILM MEDIUM: IMAGE  SIEGFRIED KRACAUER  From Theory of Film The Establishment of Physical Existence   BÉLA BALÁSZ  From Theory of the Film The Close-up The Face of Man  RUDOLF ARNHEIM  From Film as Art Film and Reality The Making of a Film   JEAN-LOUIS BAUDRY  Ideological Effects of the Basic Cinematic Apparatus  NOEL CARROLL  Defining the Moving Image  D. N. RODOWICK  Elegy for Film   IV. THE FILM MEDIUM: SOUND  SERGEI EISENSTEIN, VSEVELOD PUDOVKIN, and GRIGORI ALEXANDROV  Statement on Sound   CHRISTIAN METZ  Aural Objects  MARY ANN DOANE  The Voice in the Cinema: The Articulation of Body and Space  MICHEL CHION  From The Voice in Cinema  JOHN BELTON  Technology and Aesthetics of Film Sound  RICK ALTMAN  From Sound Theory \/ Sound Practice   V. FILM NARRATIVE AND THE OTHER ARTS   ANDRÉ BAZIN  From What is Cinema? Theater and Cinema  LEO BRAUDY  From The World in a Frame Acting: Stage vs. Screen  DUDLEY ANDREW  From Concepts in Film Theory Adaptation  TOM GUNNING  From D.W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film Narrative Discourse and the Narrator System  JERROLD LEVINSON  Film Music and Narrative Agency   PETER WOLLEN  Godard and Counter Cinema: Vent d'est  CARL PLANTINGA  Notes on Spectator Emotion and Ideological Film Criticism   VI. THE FILM ARTIST  ANDREW SARRIS  Notes on the Auteur Theory in 1962   PETER WOLLEN  From Signs and Meaning in the Cinema The Auteur Theory [Howard Hawks and John Ford]  ROLAND BARTHES  The Face of Garbo  MOLLY HASKELL  From Reverence to Rape Female Stars of the 1940s  GILBERTO PEREZ  From The Material Ghost [On Keaton and Chaplin]  RICHARD DYER  From Stars  THOMAS SCHATZ  From The Genius of the System The Whole Equation of Pictures   JEROME CHRISTENSEN  From America's Corporate Art: The Studio Authorship of Hollywood Motion Pictures   VII. FILM GENRES  LEO BRAUDY  From The World in a Frame Genre: The Conventions of Connection   RICK ALTMAN  From Film\/Genre A Semantic\/Syntactic\/Pragmatic Approach to Genre Conclusion: A Semantic\/Syntactic\/Pragmatic Approach to Genre    PAUL SCHRADER  Notes on Film Noir  ROBIN WOOD  Ideology, Genre, Auteur   LINDA WILLIAMS  Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess   CAROL CLOVER  From Men, Women, and Chainsaws  CYNTHIA A. FREELAND  Feminist Frameworks for Horror Films  DAVID BORDWELL  The Art Cinema as a Mode of Film Practice   VIII. FILM: SPECTATOR AND AUDIENCE  JEAN COMOLLI and JEAN NARBONI  Cinema\/Ideology\/Criticism   CHRISTIAN METZ  From The Imaginary Signifier Identification, Mirror  The Passion for Perceiving Disavowal, Fetishism   LAURA MULVEY  Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema  TANIA MODLESKI  From The Women Who Knew Too Much: Hitchcock and Feminist Theory The Master's Dollhouse: Rear Window  TOM GUNNING  An Aesthetic of Astonishment: Early Film and the (In)Credulous Spectator  RICHARD DYER  From White Lighting for Whiteness  MANTHIA DIAWARA  Black Spectatorship: Problems of Identification and Resistance  bell hooks  The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators  LEILANI NISHIME  The Mulatto Cyborg: Imaging a Multiracial Future   IX. DIGITIZATION  LEV MANOVICH  From The Language of New Media Synthetic Realism and Its Discontents The Synthetic Image and Its Subject Digital Cinema and the History of a Moving Image  PHILIP ROSEN  From Change Mummified  JOHN BELTON  The World in the Palm of Your Hand: Agnes Varda, Trinh T. Minh-ha, and the Digital Documentary  KRISTEN WHISSEL  The Digital Multitude  KRISTEN DALY  Cinema 3.0: The Interactive-Image  HENRY JENKINS  Quentin Tarantino's Star Wars? Digital Cinema, Media Convergence, and Participatory Culture   X. GLOBALIZATION  DUDLEY ANDREW  Time Zones and Jetlag: The Flows and Phases of World Cinema  ELLA SHOHAT and ROBERT STAM  From Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media Stereotype, Realism, and the Struggle Over Representation  STEPHEN CROFTS  Reconceptualizing National Cinema(s)   MITSUHIRO YOSHIMOTO  The Difficulty of Being Radical: The Discipline of Film Studies and the Postcolonial World Order  REY CHOW  Film and Cultural Identity  YINGJIN ZHANG  Chinese Cinema and Transnational Film Studies  WIMAL DISSANAYAKE Issues in World Cinema","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49524620165463,"sku":"9780199376896","price":171.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/film-theory-and-criticism-9780199376896","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}