{"product_id":"the-routledge-encyclopedia-of-film-theory-9781138849150","title":"The Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory\u003c\/em\u003e is an international reference work representing the essential ideas and concepts at the centre of film theory from the beginning of the twentieth century, to the beginning of the twenty-first.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen first encountering film theory, students are often confronted with a dense, interlocking set of texts full of arcane terminology, inexact formulations, sliding definitions, and abstract generalities. \u003ci\u003eThe Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory\u003c\/i\u003e challenges these first impressions by aiming to make film theory accessible and open to new readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdward Branigan and Warren Buckland have commissioned over 50 scholars from around the globe to address the difficult formulations and propositions in each theory by reducing these difficult formulations to straightforward propositions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe result is a highly accessible volume that clearly defines, and analyzes step by step, many of the fundamental concepts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory\u003c\/em\u003e is an astonishing achievement. Comprehensive – organized around no fewer than 83 distinct concepts – and authored by recognized specialists, it is sure to establish itself as a great teaching resource. Entries are concise and informative, written in clear language, which makes them especially helpful to students coming to film theory for the first time and seeking a user-friendly, but focused guide. The Editors are to be highly commended for the way they cross-list entries and map the connections between them.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThomas Elsaesser, Professor Emeritus, University of Amsterdam\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Branigan and Buckland's \u003ci\u003eEncyclopedia of Film Theory\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinary accomplishment. The entries present with clarity and order concepts from the entire history of film theory, often revealing surprising connections and filiations among ideas and authors. In the crowded field of theory overviews, this will be the essential reference work for many years to come for both beginning and advanced researchers.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eD. N. Rodowick, Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor in Cinema and Media Studies, The University of Chicago\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory\u003c\/em\u003e is both a wonderful map and intriguing maze. The encyclopedia retraces the history of film theory through more than eighty entries. Each reconstructs a debate, but also offers an up-dated perspective. My advice to the reader: (1) investigate your question; (2) then proceed randomly, as if you were surfing the Internet; (3) make connections be as strange as possible; (4) challenge the path from light to dark suggested by Branigan in the Epilogue, and disrupt it by finding new ways to make film live. Above all, savour the reading: it brings to light important chapters in the history of thought, and rediscovers what we thought we knew and what we think now.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrancesco Casetti, Professor, Film Studies Program, Yale University\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This volume attempts to address shortcomings in previous guides to film theory, which often can seem unwelcoming to the uninitiated... [and] offers a reference that is accessible to novice users through the use of concise, straightforward prose, which grounds discussion of key concepts in a limited number of canonical texts...this should prove to be a valuable reference for students engaged in film studies...Summing Up: Recommended.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eW. D. Walsh, Georgia State University, in CHOICE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAffect. Anglo-American Film Theory. Apparatus Theory (Baudry). Apparatus Theory (Plato). Art, Film as. Attention. Attraction. Auteur Theory.\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eBlending and Film Theory. Brecht and Film. Camera. Cinematic Movement. Classic Realist Text. Classical Film Theory. Close-up. Cognitive Film Theory. Concept. Contemporary Film Theory. Counter Cinema. Depth of Field. Dialogism. Diegesis. Digital Cinema. Documentary Theory. Emotion, Film and. Enunciation. Ethics. European Film Theory. Evidence (Jean-Luc Nancy). Excess, Cinematic. Fantasy and Spectatorship. Feminist Film Theory, Core Concepts. Feminist Film Theory, History of. Film Fable (Rancière). Film-Philosophy. Formalist Theories of Film. Gaming and Film Theory. Gaze Theory. Genre Theory. Identification, Theory of. Ideology. Illusion. Imaginary Signifier\u003cem\u003e. \u003c\/em\u003eImagined Observer Hypothesis. Inaesthetics (Badiou). Interface. Long Take. Memory and Film. Mimetic Innervation. Minor Cinema. Mise en Scène. Modernism versus Realism. Montage Theory I (Hollywood). Montage Theory II (Soviet Avant-Garde). Movement-Image. Narration. Ontology of the Photographic Image. Ordinary Man of the Cinema (Schefer). Perspectivism versus Realism. Phenomenology and Film. Pixel\/Cut\/Vector. Poetic Cinema. Point of View. Postmodern Cinema. Queer Theory. Reception Theory. Redemption. Representation. Rhetoric, Film and. Seeing\/Perceiving. Semiotics of Film. Skepticism. Sound Theory. Specificity, Medium I. Specificity, Medium II\u003cem\u003e. \u003c\/em\u003eStructural\/Materialist Film. Suture. Symbol and Analogon. Symptomatic Reading. Third World Cinema. Time-Image. Trauma. 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