{"product_id":"film-theory-reader-9780415493222","title":"Film Theory Reader","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHaidee Wasson, Concordia University, Montreal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarc 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrancesco Casetti, Catholic University of Milan and Yale University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eFilm Theory Reader\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach section presents well-known or significant texts, which have introduced a particularly influential concept, followed by texts that have developed or e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHaidee Wasson, Concordia University, Montreal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrancesco Casetti, Catholic University of Milan and Yale University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSelected Contents:\u003c\/strong\u003e Acknowledgements. Introduction 1. Film Theory: A History of Debates \u003cem\u003eMarc Furstenau. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eI. The Future of Film Theory: A Debate \u003c\/strong\u003e2. An Elegy for Theory \u003cem\u003eD.N. Rodowick \u003c\/em\u003e3. Theory, Philosophy, and Film Studies \u003cem\u003eMalcolm Turvey. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eII. Arguments with Early Film Theory \u003c\/strong\u003e4. The Psychology of the Photoplay \u003cem\u003eHugo Münsterberg \u003c\/em\u003e5. Film\/Mind Analogies: The Case of Hugo Münsterberg \u003cem\u003eNoël Carroll \u003c\/em\u003e6. Visible Man, or the Culture of Film \u003cem\u003eBéla Bálazs \u003c\/em\u003e7. Bálazs: Realist or Modernist? \u003cem\u003eMalcolm Turvey \u003c\/em\u003e8. The Ontology of the Photographic Image \u003cem\u003eAndré Bazin \u003c\/em\u003e9. The Evolution of the Language of Cinema \u003cem\u003eAndré Bazin \u003c\/em\u003e10. Rethinking Bazin: Ontology and Realist Aesthetics \u003cem\u003eDaniel Morgan. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIII. Classic Debates \u003c\/strong\u003e11. The Cinema: Language or Language System? \u003cem\u003eChristian Metz \u003c\/em\u003e12. The Semiology of the Cinema \u003cem\u003ePeter Wollen \u003c\/em\u003e13. Recapitulation of Images and Signs \u003cem\u003eGilles Deleuze \u003c\/em\u003e14. Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema \u003cem\u003eLaura Mulvey \u003c\/em\u003e15. Is the Gaze Male? \u003cem\u003eE. Ann Kaplan \u003c\/em\u003e16. Afterthoughts on ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’ \u003cem\u003eLaura Mulvey \u003c\/em\u003e17. The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators \u003cem\u003ebell hooks. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIV. Recent Arguments \u003c\/strong\u003e18. Digital Cinema and the History of a Moving Image \u003cem\u003eLev Manovich \u003c\/em\u003e19. Moving Away from the Index: Cinema and the Impression of Reality \u003cem\u003eTom Gunning \u003c\/em\u003e20. The End of Cinema: Multimedia and Technological Change \u003cem\u003eAnne Friedberg \u003c\/em\u003e21. Digital Cinema: A False Revolution \u003cem\u003eJohn Belton\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018156769623,"sku":"9780415493222","price":48.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780415493222.jpg?v=1750775826","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/film-theory-reader-9780415493222","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}