| Description |
xviii, 861 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: 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 [The Dialectical Approach to Film Form] -- ANDR'E BAZIN From What Is Cinema? -- The Evolution of the Language of Cinema -- BRIAN HENDERSON Toward a Non-Bourgeois Camera Style -- CHRISTIAN METZ From Film Language -- Some Points in the Semiotics of the Cinema -- Problems of Denotation in the Fiction Film -- 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 the Suture" -- KAJA SILVERMAN From The Subject of Semiotics -- [On Suture] -- NICK BROWNE The Spectator-in-the-Text: The Rhetoric of Stagecoach -- II. Film and Reality -- SIEGFRIED KRACAUER From Theory of Film -- Basic Concepts -- SIEGFRIED KRACAUER From From Caligari to Hitler -- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari -- ANDR'E BAZIN From What is Cinema? -- The Ontology of the Photographic Image -- The Myth of Total Cinema -- De Sica: Metteur-en-sc̀€ene -- RUDOLF ARNHEIM From Film as Art -- The Complete Film -- MAYA DEREN Cinematography: The Creative Use of Reality -- STAN BRAKHAGE From Metaphors on Vision -- ROBERT STAM AND LOUISE SPENCE Colonialism, Racism, and Representation: An Introduction -- CHRISTINE GLEDHILL Recent Developments in Feminist Criticism -- III. The Film Medium: Image and Sound -- ERWIN PANOFSKY Style and Medium in the Motion Pictures -- SIEGFRIED KRACAUER From Theory of Film -- The Establishment of Physical Existence -- B'ELA BAL'ASZ 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 -- NO"EL CARROLL From Philosophical Problems of Classical Film Theory -- The Specificity Thesis -- GERALD MAST From Film/Cinema/Movie -- Projection -- STANLEY CAVELL From The World Viewed -- Photograph and Screen -- Audience, Actor, and Star -- Types; Cycles as Genres -- Ideas of Origin -- JEAN-LOUIS BAUDRY Ideological Effects of the Basic Cinematographic Apparatus -- CHRISTIAN METZ Aural Objects -- SERGEI EISENSTEIN, VSEVELOD PUDOVKIN, AND GRIGORI ALEXANDROV Statement on Sound -- MARY ANN DOANE The Voice in the Cinema: The Articulation of Body and Space -- JOHN BELTON Technology and Aesthetics of Film Sound -- JOHN ELLIS From Visible Fictions -- Broadcast TV as Sound and Image -- IV. Film Narrative and Other Arts -- HUGO M"UNSTERBERG From The Film: A Psychological Study -- The Means of the Photoplay -- ANDR'E BAZIN From What is Cinema? -- Theater and Cinema -- LEO BRAUDY From The World in a Frame -- Acting: Stage vs. Screen -- SERGEI EISENSTEIN From Dickens, Griffith and Ourselves [Dickens, Griffith, and Film Today] -- SEYMOUR CHATMAN What Novels Can Do That Films Can't (and Vice Versa) -- DUDLEY ANDREW From Conceps in Film Theory -- Adaptation -- TOM GUNNING Narrative Discourse and the Narrator System -- SEYMOUR CHATMAN From Coming to Terms -- The Cinematic Narrator -- KRISTIN THOMPSON The Concept of Cinematic Excess -- PETER WOLLEN Godard and Counter Cinema: Vent d'Est -- V. The Film Artist -- ANDREW SARRIS Notes on the Auteur Theory in 1962 -- PETER WOLLEN From Signs and Meaning in the Cinema -- The Auteur Theory -- ROLAND BARTHES The Face of Garbo -- JOHN ELLIS From Visible Fictions -- Stars as Cinematic Phenomenon -- ROBERT C. ALLEN From Film History: Theory and Practice -- The Role of the Star in Film History [Joan Crawford] -- MOLLY HASKELL From From Reverence to Rape -- Female Stars of the 1940s -- From Women and their Sexuality in the New Film -- JOAN MELLEN From Women and Their Sexuality in the New Film -- The Mae West Nobody Knows -- MIRIAM HANSEN Pleasure, Ambivalence, Identification -- Valentino and Female Spectatorship -- THOMAS SCHATZ From The Genius of the System -- "The Whole Equation of Pictures" -- VI. Film Genres -- LEO BRAUDY From The World in a Frame -- Genre: The Conventions of Connection -- RICK ALTMAN A Semantic/Syntactic Approach to Film Genre -- Film Genre and the Genre Film -- ROBERT WARSHOW Movie Chronicle: The Westerner -- ROBIN WOOD Ideology, Genre, Auteur -- BRUCE KAWIN The Mummy's Pool -- TANIA MODLESKI The Terror of Pleasure: The Contemporary Horror Film and Postmodern Theory -- LINDA WILLIAMS Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess -- DAVID BORDWELL The Art Cinema as a Mode of Film Practice -- VII. Film: Psychology, Society, and Ideology -- WALTER BENJAMIN The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction -- JEAN-LUC COMOLLI AND JEAN NARBONI Cinema/Ideology/Criticism -- JEAN-LOUIS BAUDRY The Apparatus: Metapsychological Approaches to the Impression of Reality in Cinema -- NO"EL CARROLL From Mystifying Movies -- Jean-Louis Baudry and "The Apparatus" -- PARKER TYLER From Magic and Myth of the Movies -- Preface -- CHRISTIAN METZ From The Imaginary Signifier -- Identification, Mirror -- The Passion for Perceiving -- Disavowal, Fetishism -- TOM GUNNING An Aesthetic of Astonishment: Early Film and the (In)Credulous Spectator -- LAURA MULVEY Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema -- MANTHIA DIAWARA Black Spectatorship: Problems of Identification and Resistance |
| Summary |
Since publication of the first edition in 1974, Film Theory and Criticism has been the most widely used and cited anthology of critical writings about film. Extensively revised and updated, this fifth edition is ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses in film theory and criticism. Featuring both classic texts and cutting-edge essays from almost a century of thought and writing about the movies, it includes 19 articles new to this edition and new introductions for the individual sections. The sections themselves have been reformulated to help lead readers into a richer understanding of what the movies have and can accomplish both as individual works and as contributions to what has been called "the art form of the twentieth century." |
| Notes |
Previous ed. published: 1985 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Motion pictures.
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| Author |
Braudy, Leo.
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Cohen, Marshall.
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| LC no. |
97015809 |
| ISBN |
0195105982 (alk. paper) |
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