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Film theory : an introduction / Robert Lapsley and Michael Westlake.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lapsley, Robert.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 317 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2006.
- Summary:
- This book offers an accessible account of film theory for the student and the cinemagoer. It ranges from the late 1960s to the present, a period in which a number of conceptual strands--notably politics, semiotics and psychoanalysis--came together. Lapsely and Westlake chart the construction of this synthesis and its subsequent fragmentation and elucidate the various intellectual currents contributing to it. The first part of the book covers the conceptual background of film theory, dealing with historical materialism, semiotics, and psychoanalysis, while the second part concentrates on particular topics--authorship, narrative, realism, the avant-garde and postmodernism. This second edition features an extensive retrospective introduction, as well as a fully updated and extended bibliography.
- Notes:
- Previous ed.: 1988.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [278]-307) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0719073758
- OCLC:
- 62891804
- Publisher Number:
- 9780719073755
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