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7th ed. |
| Description |
xvii, 905 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
I: Film language. [On editing] / Vsevolod Pudovkin ; Beyond the shot [the cinematographic principle and the ideogram] / Sergei Eisenstein ; The dramaturgy of film form [the dialectical approach to film form] / Sergei Eisenstein ; The evolution of the language of cinema / André Bazin ; Toward a non-bourgeois camera style / Brian Henderson ; Some points in the semiotics of cinema / Christian Metz ; Problems of denotation in the fiction film / Christian Metz ; Semiotics and the cinema : Metz and Wollen / Gilbert Harman ; The discourse of pictures : iconicity and film studies / Stephen Prince ; The Tutor-code of classical cinema / Daniel Dayan ; Against "the system of the suture" / William Rothman ; The spectator-in-the-text : the rhetoric of Stagecoach / Nick Browne -- II: Film and reality. Basic concepts / Siegfried Kracauer ; The ontology of the photographic image / André Bazin ; The myth of total cinema / André Bazin ; The complete film / Rudolf Arnheim ; The apparatus : metapsychological approaches to the impression of reality in cinema / Jean-Louis Baudry ; Jean-Louis Baudry and "The apparatus" / Noël Carroll ; Modernizing vision / Jonathan Crary ; Preface to the English edition / Gilles Deleuze ; Origin of the crisis : Italian neo-realism and the French new wave / Gilles Deleuze ; Beyond the movement-image / Gilles Deleuze -- |
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III: The film medium : image and sound. Style and medium in the motion pictures / Erwin Panofsky ; The establishment of physical existence / Siegfried Kracauer ; The close-up ; The face of man / Béla Balász ; Film and reality / Rudolf Arnheim ; The making of a film / Rudolf Arnheim ; The specificity thesis / Noël Carroll ; Projection / Gerald Mast ; Photograph and screen / Stanley Cavell ; Audience, actor, and star / Stanley Cavell ; Types, cycles as genres / Stanley Cavell ; Ideas of origin / Stanley Cavell ; Statement on sound / Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevelod Pudovkin, Grigori Alexandrov ; The voice in the cinema : the articulation of body and space / Mary Ann Doane ; Technology and aesthetics of film sound / John Belton -- IV: Film narrative and the other arts. Theater and cinema / André Bazin ; Acting : stage vs. screen / Leo Braudy ; Dickens, Griffith, and ourselves / Sergei Eisenstein ; [Dickens, Griffith, and film today] / Sergei Eisenstein ; Adaptation / Dudley Andrew ; Backgrounds / Brian McFarlane ; Narrative discourse and the narrator system / Tom Gunning ; Film music and narrative agency / Jerrold Levinson ; Godard and counter cinema : Vent d'est / Peter Wollen ; Cognition and comprehension : viewing and forgetting in Mildred Pierce / David Bordwell -- |
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V: Film artist. Notes on the auteur theory in 1962 / Andrew Sarris ; The auteur theory [Howard Hawks and John Ford] / Peter Wollen ; The face of Garbo / Roland Barthes ; [On Keaton and Chaplin] / Gilberto Perez ; From Stars / Richard Dyer ; Katherine Hepburn in Holiday / James Naremore ; Female stars of the 1940s / Molly Haskell ; How Howard Hawks brought Baby up : an Apologia for the studio system / Richard B. Jewell ; "The whole equation of pictures" / Thomas Schatz -- VI: Film genres. Genre : the conventions of connection / Leo Braudy ; A semantic/syntactic approach to film genre / Rick Altman ; Film genre and the genre film / Thomas Schatz ; The gangster as tragic hero / Robert Warshow ; Notes on film noir / Paul Schrader ; Ideology, genre, auteur / Robin Wood ; Film bodies : gender, genre, and excess / Linda Williams ; The terror of pleasure : the contemporary horror film and postmodern theory / Tania Modleski ; Feminist frameworks for horror films / Cynthia A. Freeland ; The art cinema as a mode of film practice / David Bordwell -- |
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VII: Film : spectator and audience. The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction / Walter Benjamin ; Cinema/ideology/criticism / Jean-Luc Comolli, Jean Narboni ; Identification, mirror / Christian Metz ; The passion for perceiving / Christian Metz ; Disavowal, fetishism / Christian Metz ; Visual pleasure and narrative cinema / Laura Mulvey ; The master's dollhouse : Rear window / Tania Modleski ; An aesthetic of astonishment : early film and the (in)credulous spectator / Tom Gunning ; Colonialism, racism, and representation : an introduction / Robert Stam, Louise Spence ; Black spectatorship : problems of identification and resistance / Manthia Diawara -- VIII: Digitization and globalization. Synthetic realism and its discontents / Lev Manovich ; The synthetic image and its subject / Lev Manovich ; Digital cinema and the history of a moving image / Lev Manovich ; The end of cinema : multimedia and technological change / Anne Friedberg ; From Change mummified / Philip Rosen ; The impact of digital technologies on film aesthetics / Michael Allen ; Tales of upward mobility : the new verticality and digital special effects / Kristen Whissel ; Reconceptualizing national cinema(s) / Stephen Crofts ; The difficulty of being radical : the discipline of film studies and the postcolonial world order / Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto ; Issues in world cinema / Wimal Dissanayake. |
| Summary |
"Since publication of the first edition in 1974, Leo Braudy and Marshall Cohen's Film Theory and Criticism has been the most widely used and cited anthology of critical writings about film. Now in its seventh edition, this landmark text continues to offer outstanding coverage of more than a century of thought and writing about the movies. Incorporating classic texts by pioneers in film theory - including Rudolf Arnheim, Siegfried Kracauer, and Andre Bazin - and cutting-edge essays by such contemporary scholars as David Bordwell, Tania Modleski, Thomas Schatz, and Richard Dyer, the book examines both historical and theoretical viewpoints on the subject." "Building upon the wide range of selections and the extensive historical coverage that marked previous editions, this new compilation stretches from the earliest attempts to define the cinema to the most recent efforts to place film in the contexts of psychology, sociology, and philosophy, and to explore issues of gender and race. Reorganized into eight sections - each comprising the major fields of critical controversy and analysis - this new edition features reformulated introductions and biographical headnotes that contextualize the readings, making the text more accessible than ever to students, film enthusiasts, and general readers alike. The seventh edition also integrates exciting new material on feminist theory, queer cinema, and global cinema, as well as a new section, "Digitization and Globalization," which engages important recent developments in technology and world cinema." "A wide-ranging critical and historical survey, Film Theory and Criticism remains the leading text for undergraduate courses in film theory. It is also ideal for graduate courses in film theory and criticism."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Philosophy.
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Motion pictures -- History.
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Film criticism.
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Motion pictures. (OCoLC)fst01027285
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Motion pictures -- Philosophy.
(OCoLC)fst01027348
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Braudy, Leo.
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Cohen, Marshall.
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| ISBN |
9780195365627 |
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0195365623 |
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