Film theory and criticism : introductory readings / edited by Leo Braudy, Marshall Cohen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Braudy, Leo.

Cohen, Marshall

Hazel M. Hussong Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

xvii, 905 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

Seventh edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Contents:

from Film technique. [On editing] / Vsevolod Pudovkin

from Film form. Beyond the shot [the cinematographic principle and the ideogram] ; Dramaturgy of film form [the dialectical approach to film form] / Sergei Eisenstein

from What is cinema? Evolution of the language of cinema / André Bazin

Toward a non-bourgeois camera style / Brian Henderson

from Film language. Some points in the semiotics of cinema ; Problems of denotation in the fiction film / Christian Metz

Semiotics and the cinema : Metz and Wollen / Gilbert Harman

Discourse of pictures : iconicity and film studies / Stephen Prince

Tutor-code of classical cinema / Daniel Dayan

Against "the system of the suture" / William Rothman

Spectator-in-the-text : the rhetoric of Stagecoach / Nick Browne

from Theory of film. Basic concepts / Siegfried Kracauer

from What is cinema? Ontology of the photographic image ; Myth of total cinema / André Bazin

from Film as art. Complete film / Rudolf Arnheim

Apparatus : metapsychological approaches to the impression of reality in cinema / Jean-Louis Baudry

from Mystifying movies. Jean-Louis Baudry and "The apparatus" / Noël Carroll

from Vision and visuality. Modernizing vision / Jonathan Crary

from Cinema 1 and Cinema 2. Preface to the English edition ; Origin of the crisis : Italian neo-realism and the French new wave ; Beyond the movement-image / Gilles Deleuze

Style and medium in the motion pictures / Erwin Panofsky

from Theory of film. Establishment of physical existence / Siegfried Kracauer

from Theory of the film. Close-up ; Face of man / Béla Balász

from Film as art. Film and reality ; Making of a film / Rudolf Arnheim

from Philosophical problems of classical film theory. Specificity thesis / Noël Carroll

from Film/cinema/movie. Projection / Gerald Mast

from The world viewed. Photograph and screen ; Audience, actor, and star ; Types, cycles as genres ; Ideas of origin / Stanley Cavell

Statement on sound / Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevelod Pudovkin, Grigori Alexandrov

Voice in the cinema : the articulation of body and space / Mary Ann Doane

Technology and aesthetics of film sound / John Belton

from What is cinema? Theater and cinema / André Bazin

from The world in a frame. Acting : stage vs. screen / Leo Braudy

from Film form. Dickens, Griffith, and ourselves ; [Dickens, Griffith, and film today] / Sergei Eisenstein

from Concepts in film theory. Adaptation / Dudley Andrew

from Novel to film. Backgrounds / Brian McFarlane

from D.W. Griffith and the origins of American narrative film. Narrative discourse and the narrator system / Tom Gunning

Film music and narrative agency / Jerrold Levinson

Godard and counter cinema ; Vent d'est / Peter Wollen

from Poetics of cinema. Cognition and comprehension : viewing and forgetting in Mildred Pierce / David Bordwell

Notes on the auteur theory in 1962 / Andrew Sarris

from Signs and meaning in the cinema. Auteur theory [Howard Hawks and John Ford] / Peter Wollen

Face of Garbo / Roland Barthes

from The material ghost. [On Keaton and Chaplin] / Gilberto Perez

From Stars / Richard Dyer

from Acting in the cinema. Katherine Hepburn in Holiday / James Naremore

from From reverence to rape. Female stars of the 1940s / Molly Haskell

How Howard Hawks brought Baby up : an Apologia for the studio system / Richard B. Jewell

from The genius of the system. "Whole equation of pictures" / Thomas Schatz

from The world in a frame. Genre : the conventions of connection / Leo Braudy

Semantic/syntactic approach to film genre / Rick Altman

from Hollywood genres. Film genre and the genre film / Thomas Schatz

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

Terror of pleasure : the contemporary horror film and postmodern theory / Tania Modleski

Feminist frameworks for horror films / Cynthia A. Freeland

Art cinema as a mode of film practice / David Bordwell

Work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction / Walter Benjamin

Cinema/ideology/criticism / Jean-Luc Comolli, Jean Narboni

from The imaginary signifier. Identification, mirror ; Passion for perceiving ; Disavowal, fetishism / Christian Metz

Visual pleasure and narrative cinema / Laura Mulvey

from The women who knew too much : Hitchcock and feminist theory. Master's dollhouse : Rear window / Tania Modleski

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

from The language of new media. Synthetic realism and its discontents ; Synthetic image and its subject ; Digital cinema and the history of a moving image / Lev Manovich

End of cinema : multimedia and technological change / Anne Friedberg

from Change mummified / Philip Rosen

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

Difficulty of being radical : the discipline of film studies and the postcolonial world order / Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto

Issues in world cinema / Wimal Dissanayake.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hazel M. Hussong Fund.

ISBN:

9780195365627

0195365623

OCLC:

262430698

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