| Description |
xii, 368 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Sect. 1. Political Economy and Mass Culture Theory. 1. The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception / Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer. 2. A Theory of Mass Culture / Dwight Macdonald. 3. Concepts of Culture: Public Policy and the Cultural Industries / Nicholas Garnham. 4. "Holy Commodity Fetish, Batman!": The Political Economy of a Commercial Intertext / Eileen R. Meehan. 5. Hooray for Hollywood: Moving into the Twenty-First Century / Janet Wasko -- Sect. 2. Film and Authorship. 6. The Filmwright and the Audience / Thorold Dickinson. 7. A Playwright Looks at the "Filmwright" / Howard Koch. 8. A Certain Tendency of the French Cinema / Francois Truffaut. 9. Films, Directors and Critics / Ian Cameron. 10. Notes on the Auteur Theory in 1962 / Andrew Sarris. 11. The Auteur Theory / Peter Wollen. 12. Hawks de-Wollenized / Robin Wood -- Sect. 3. Genre Criticism. 13. Authorship and Genre: Notes on the Western / Jim Kitses. 14. Critical Method ... Genre / Andrew Tudor. 15. Extract from Genre / Steve Neale. 16. The Woman's Film / Christine Geraghty. 17. American Film Noir: The History of an Idea / James Naremore -- Sect. 4. Star Studies. 18. Stars as Images / Richard Dyer. 19. Stars and "Character" / Richard Dyer. 20. Living Stars / Richard Dyer. 21. Stars and the Star System: The Case of Bete Davis / Maria LaPlace. 22. Cary Grant in the Fifties: Indiscretions of the Bachelor's Masquerade / Steven Cohan. 23. Feminine Fascinations: Forms of Identification in Star-Audience Relations / Jackie Stacey -- Sect. 5. The Historical Poetics of Cinema. 24. The Cinema of Attractions: Early Film, Its Spectator and the Avant-Garde / Tom Gunning. 25. The Classical Hollywood Cinema / Richard Maltby. 26. Post-Classical Hollywood / Peter Kramer. 27. Taboos and Totems: Cultural Meanings of The Silence of the Lambs / Janet Staiger -- Sect. 6. Screen Theory I: From Marxism to psychoanalysis. 28. Cinema/Ideology/Criticism / Jean-Luc Comolli and Paul Narboni. 29. Realism and the Cinema: Notes on Some Brechtian Theses / Colin MacCabe. 30. Narrative and Realism / John Hill. 31. The Imaginary Signifier / Christian Metz. 32. The Tutor-Code of Classical Cinema / Daniel Dayan -- Sect. 7. Screen Theory II: Psychoanalysis, Feminism and Film. 33. The Place of Woman in the Cinema of Raoul Walsh / Pam Cook and Claire Johnston. 34. Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema / Laura Mulvey. 35. Film and the Masquerade: Theorizing the Female Spectator / Mary Ann Doane. 36. Her Body, Himself / Carol J. Clover -- Sect. 8. Cultural Studies. 37. Gramsci Goes to Hollywood / Iain Chambers. 38. Texts, Readers, Subjects / David Morley. 39. Technology and Tradition: Audio-Visual Culture among South Asian Families in West London / Marie Gillespie. 40. Post-Feminism and Shopping Films / Charlotte Brunsdon. 41. Film History Terminable and Interminable: Recovering the Past in Reception Studies / Barbara Klinger -- Sect. 9. Theorizing Differences. 42. Colonialism, Racism and Representation : An Introduction / Robert Stam and Louise Spence. 43. White Privilege and Looking Relations: Race and Gender in Feminist Film Theory / Jane Gaines. 44. Feminism, "The Boyz" and Other Matters Regarding the Male / Robyn Wiegman. 45. There s Something Queer Here / Alexander Doty. 46. On Not Being Lady Macbeth: Some (Troubled) Thoughts on Lesbian Spectatorship / Tamsin Wilton |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Film criticism.
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Motion pictures -- Reviews.
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Motion pictures.
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| Genre/Form |
Reviews.
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| Author |
Hollows, Joanne.
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Hutchings, Peter.
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Jancovich, Mark.
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| LC no. |
2001274057 |
| ISBN |
0340692782 (cased) |
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0340692790 (paperback) |
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