Critical visions in film theory : classic and contemporary readings / edited by Timothy Corrigan, Patricia White, with Meta Mazaj.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Corrigan, Timothy, 1951-

White, Patricia, 1964-

Mazaj, Meta, 1971-

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Study and teaching.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--History.

History.

Film criticism.

Physical Description:

xxi, 1173 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Bedford/St. Martin's, 2011.

Contents:

Part 1 Experiencing Film: From Perception to Reception

From Republic / Plato

The Allegory of the Cave

Why We Go to the Movies / Hugo Münsterberg Münsterberg, Hugo

From The Imaginary Signifier / Christian metz metz, Christian

Loving the Cinema

Identifi cation, Mirror

Disavowal, Fetishism

Ideological Effects of the Basic Cinematographic Apparatus / Jean-Louis Baudry Baudry, Jean-Louis

Film, Reality, and Illusion / Gregory Currie Currie, Gregory

From The Address of the Eye / Vivian Sobchack Sobchack, Vivian

Phenomenology and Film Experience

The Cinema of Attractions: Early Film, Its Spectator and the Avant-Garde / Tom Gunning Gunning, Tom

Encoding/Decoding / Stuart Hall Hall, Stuart

Paradoxes of Spectatorship / Judith Mayne Mayne, Judith

Part 2 The Sights, Sounds, and Signs of Cinema

From Ways of Seeing / John Berger Berger, John

From Theory of the Film / Béla Balázs Balázs, Béla

The Creative Camera

The Close-Up

The Face of Man

The Principles of Montage / Lev Kuleshov Kuleshov, Lev

Cinematography: The Creative Use of Reality / Maya Deren Deren, Maya

From The Voice in Cinema / Michel Chion Chion, Michel

The Acousmêtre

From Unheard Melodies / Claudia Gorbman Gorbman, Claudia

Classical Hollywood Practice

From Cinema II: The Time-Image / Gilles Deleuze Deleuze, Gilles

Preface

Recapitulation of Images and Signs

Conclusions

From Acting in the Cinema / James Naremore Naremore, James

Protocols

From Understanding Animation / Paul Wells Wells, Paul

Notes Towards a Theory of Animation

Part 3 Modernism and Realism: Debates in Classical

Film Theory

The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility (Second Version) / Walter Benjamin Benjamin, Walter

Photogénie and the Imponderable / Jean Epstein Epstein, Jean

Film Directors: A Revolution / Dziga Vertov Vertov, Dziga

The Dramaturgy of Film Form (The Dialectical Approach to Film Form) / Sergei Eisenstein Eisenstein, Sergei

From Film as Art / Rudolf Arnheim Arnheim, Rudolf

Film and Reality

From Theory of Film / Siegfried Kracauer Kracauer, Siegfried

Basic Concepts

Inherent Affi nities

From What Is Cinema? / André Bazin Bazin, André

The Ontology of the Photographic Image

The Evolution of the Language of Cinema

The Mass Production of the Senses: Classical Cinema as Vernacular Modernism / Miriam Hansen Hansen, Miriam

Part 4 Auteurism: Directors, Stars, and Beyond

The Death of the Author / Roland Barthes Barthes, Roland

The Birth of a New Avant-Garde: La Caméra-Stylo / Alexandre Astruc Astruc, Alexandre

The Auteur Theory Revisited / Andrew Sarris Sarris, Andrew

From Signs and Meaning in the Cinema / Peter Wollen Wollen, Peter

The Auteur Theory

From The Women Who Knew Too Much / Tania Modleski Modleski, Tania

Hitchcock, Feminism, and the Patriarchal Unconscious

Lesbian Looks: Dorothy Arzner and Female Authorship / Judith Mayne Mayne, Judith

From Stars / Richard Dyer Dyer, Richard

From A Cinema without Walls / Timothy Corrigan Corrigan, Timothy

The Commerce of Auteurism

Studio Authorship, Corporate Art / Jerome Christensen Christensen, Jerome

Part 5 Genre: Classifying Stories

From Poetics / Aristotle

The Origins of Tragedy, Comedy and Epic

From Hollywood Genres / Thomas Schatz Schatz, Thomas

Film Genre and the Genre Film

Entertainment and Utopia / Richard Dyer Dyer, Richard

Cinema/Ideology/Criticism / Jean-Louis Comolli Comolli, Jean-Louis, Jean Narboni Narboni, Jean

From Film/Genre / Rick Altman Altman, Rick

A Semantic/Syntactic/Pragmatic Approach to Genre

Tales of Sound and Fury: Observations on the Family Melodrama / Thomas Elsaesser Elsaesser, Thomas

From Men, Women, and Chain Saws / Carol J. Clover Clover, Carol J.

Her Body, Himself

Part 6 Narrative: Telling Stories

Structural Analysis of Narrative / Tzvetan Todorov Todorov, Tzvetan

Beyond Fidelity: The Dialogics of Adaptation / Robert Stam Stam, Robert

From Poetics of Cinem / David Bordwell Bordwell, David

The Art Cinema as a Mode of Film Practice

From Alice Doesn't / Teresa de Lauretis Lauretis, Teresa de

Desire in Narrative

Black American Cinema: The New Realism / Manthia Diawara Diawara, Manthia

Narrative Form in American Network Television / Jane Feuer Feuer, Jane

From Convergence Culture / Henry Jenkins Jenkins, Henry

Searching for the Origami Unicorn: The Matrix and Transmedia Storytelling

Part 7 Alternative Modes: Experimental and Documentary Film

The Salon of 1859: The Modern Public and Photography / Charles Baudelaire Baudelaire, Charles

The Avant-Garde Cinema / Germaine Dulac Dulac, Germaine

First Principles of Documentary / John Grierson Grierson, John

In Consideration of Aesthetics / Stan Brakhage Brakhage, Stan

From Blurred Boundaries / Bill Nichols Nichols, Bill

Performing Documentary

DOGME 95

Manifesto

Vow of Chastity

Documentary Is/Not a Name / Trinh T. Minh-ha Minh-ha, Trinh T.

Part 8 Sexuality and Gender in Cinema: From Psychoanalysis to Performativity

On Fetishism / Sigmund Freud Freud, Sigmund

Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema / Laura Mulvey Mulvey, Laura

"Something Else Besides a Mother" / Linda Williams Williams, Linda

Dark and Lovely Too: Black Gay Men in Independent Film / Kobena Mercer Mercer, Kobena

Dumb Movies for Dumb People: Masculinity, the Body, and the Voice in Contemporary Action Cinema / Yvonne Tasker Tasker, Yvonne

New Queer Cinema / B. Ruby Rich Rich, B. Ruby

Porn Studies: Proliferating Pornographies On/Scene / Linda Williams Williams, Linda

Part 9 Race and Ethnicity in Cinema: From Stereotypes to Self-Representation

From Black Skin, White Masks / Frantz Fanon Fanon, Frantz

The Fact of Blackness

From Unthinking Eurocentrism / Ella Shohat Shohat, Ella, Robert Stam Stam, Robert

Stereotype, Realism, and the Struggle over Representation

White / Richard Dyer Dyer, Richard

From The Third Eye / Fatimah Tobing Rony Rony, Fatimah Tobing

King Kong and the Monster in Ethnographic Cinema

Are All Latins from Manhattan? / Ana M. López López, Ana M.

Reading the Signs, Empowering the Eye / Toni Cade Bambara Bambara, Toni Cade

Screen Memories and Entangled Technologies / Faye Ginsburg Ginsburg, Faye

Part 10 National and Transnational Film Histories

From Imagined Communities / Benedict Anderson Anderson, Benedict

Some Ideas on the Cinema / Cesare Zavattini Zavattini, Cesare

Towards a Third Cinema: Notes and Experiences for the Development of a Cinema of Liberation in the Third World / Fernando Solanas Solanas, Fernando, Octavio Getino Getino, Octavio

Reconceptualizing National Cinema/s / Stephen Crofts Crofts, Stephen

From The Cinematic ImagiNation / Jyotika Virdi Virdi, Jyotika

Nation and Its Discontents

From An Accented Cinema / Hamid Naficy Naficy, Hamid

Situating Accented Cinema

An Atlas of World Cinema / Dudley Andrew Andrew, Dudley

Part 11 Screen Cultures: Current Debates

From The Dialectic of Enlightenment / Theodor W. Adorno Adorno, Theodor W., Max Horkheimer Horkheimer, Max

The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception

Postmodernism and Consumer Society / Fredric Jameson Jameson, Fredric

From Digitizing Race / Lisa Nakamura Nakamura, Lisa

The Social Optics of Race and Networked Interfaces in The Matrix Trilogy and Minority Report

From The Language of New Media / Lev Manovich Manovich, Lev

What Is Digital Cinema?

From Gaming / Alexander R. Gallowaw Gallowaw, Alexander R.

Origins of the First-Person Shooter

From Remix / Lawrence Lessig Lessig, Lawrence

RW, Revived

"Take Responsibility for Yourself": Judge Judy and the Neoliberal Citizen / Laurie Ouellette Ouellette, Laurie

An Elegy for Theory / D. N. Rodowick Rodowick, D. N..

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780312446345

0312446349

OCLC:

679935687