| Description |
xix, 426 pages ; 26 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in film |
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Cambridge studies in film.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part I. Questioning Media: -- 1. Medium specificity arguments and the self-consciously invented arts -- 2. The specificity of media in the arts -- 3. Concerning uniqueness claims for photographic and cinematographic representation -- 4. Defining the moving image -- Part II. Popular Film and TV: -- 5. The power of movies -- 6. Toward a theory of film suspense -- 7. As the dial turns: notes on soap operas -- 8. Toward a theory of point of view editing -- 9. Notes on movie music -- 10. Notes on the sight gag -- Part III. Avant-garde and Documentary Film: -- 11. Avant-garde film and film theory -- 12. Causation, the amplification of movement and the avant-garde film -- 13. Language and cinema: preliminary notes for a theory of verbal images -- 14. A note on film metaphor -- 15. From real to reel: entangled in non-fiction film -- 16. Reply to Carol Browson and Jack C. Wolf -- Part IV. Ideology: -- 17. The image of women in film: a defense of a paradigm -- 18. Film, rhetoric and ideology -- Part V. The History of Film Theory: -- 19. Film /mind analogies: the case of Hugo Munsterberg -- 20. Hans Richter's Struggle for Film -- 21. A brief note on Frampton's notion of metahistory -- Part VI. Polemical Exchanges: -- 22. Cognitivism, contemporary film theory and method -- 23. Cracks in the acoustic mirror -- 24. A reply to Heath -- 25. Replies to Jennifer Hammett and Richard Allen -- Part VII. False Starts: -- 26. Film history and film theory -- 27. Art, film and ideology -- 28. Toward a theory of film editing. |
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Motion pictures -- Philosophy.
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Television -- Philosophy.
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Television broadcasting -- Philosophy.
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Motion pictures -- Philosophy.
(OCoLC)fst01027348
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Television broadcasting -- Philosophy.
(OCoLC)fst01146755
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Television -- Philosophy.
(OCoLC)fst01146581
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| ISBN |
0521460492 (hardback) |
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9780521460491 (hardback) |
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0521466075 (pbk.) |
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9780521466073 (pbk.) |
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