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Title

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

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

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Additional Authors

• Braudy, Leo
• Cohen, Marshall

Description

xviii, 861 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Since publication of the first edition in 1974, Film Theory and Criticism has been the most widely used and cited anthology of critical writings about film. Extensively revised and updated, this fifth edition is ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses in film theory and criticism. Featuring both classic texts and cutting-edge essays from almost a century of thought and writing about the movies, it includes 19 articles new to this edition and new introductions for the individual sections. The sections themselves have been reformulated to help lead readers into a richer understanding of what the movies have and can accomplish both as individual works and as contributions to what has been called "the art form of the twentieth century.""--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Motion pictures
• Motion Pictures

Genre/Form

• Motion pictures
• Films.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Pt.1. Film language. From Film technique / Vsevolod Pudovkin -- From Film form / Sergei Eisenstein -- From What is cinema? / Andre Bazin -- Toward a non-burgeois camera style / Brian Henderson -- From Film language / Christian Metz -- Semiotics and the cinema : Metz and Wollen / Gilbert Harman -- The discourse of pictures : inconicity and film studies / Sthephen Prince -- The tutor-code of classical cinema / Daniel Dayan -- Against "The system of the suture" / William Rothman -- From The subject of semiotics / Kaja Silverman -- The spectator-in-the-text : the rhetoric of Stagecoach / Nick Browne -- Pt.2. Film and reality. From Theory of film / Siegfried Kracauer -- From From Caligari to Hitler / Siegfried Kracauer -- From What is cinema? / Andre Bazin -- From Film as Art / Rudolf Arnheim -- Cinematography : the creative use of reality / Maya Deren -- From Metaphors on vision / Stan Brakhage -- COlonialism, racism, and representation : an introduction / Robert Stam and Louise Spence -- Recent developments in feminist criticism / Christine Gledhill --
• (cont.) Pt.3. The film medium : image and sound. Style and medium in the motion pictures / Erwin Panofsky -- From Theory of film / Siegfried Kracauer -- From Theory of the film / Bela Balasz -- From Film as art / Rudolf Arnheim -- From Philosophical probelms of classical film theory / Noel Carroll -- From Film/cinema/movie / Gerald Mast -- From The world viewed / Stanley Cavell -- Ideological effects of the basic cinematographic apparatus / Jean-Louis Beudry -- Aural objects / Christian Metz -- Statement on sound / Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudivkin, and Grigori Alexandrov -- The voice in cinema : the articulation of body and space / Mary Ann Doane -- Technology and aesthetics of film sound / John Belton -- From Visibal fictions / John Ellis -- Pt.4. Film narrative and the other arts. From The film : a psychological study / Hugo Munsterberh -- From What is cinema? / Andre Bazin -- From The world in a frame / Leo Braudy --
• (cont.) Dickens, Griffith and ourselves / Sergiei Eisenstien / What novels can do that films can't (vice versa) / Seymour Chatman -- From Concepts in film theory / Dudley Andrew -- Narrative discourse and the narrator system / Tom Gunning -- From Coming to terms / Seymour Chatman -- The concept of cinematic excess / Kristin Thompson -- Godard and counter cinema : vent d'est / Peter Wollen -- Pt.5. The film artist. Notes on the auteur theory in 1962 / Andrew Sarris -- From signs and meaning in the cinema / Peter Wollen -- The face of Garbo / Roland Barthes -- From Visible fictions / John Ellis -- From Film history : theory and practice / Robert C. Allen -- From Reverence to rape / Molly Haskell -- From Women and their sexuality in the new film / Joan Mellen -- Pleasure, ambivalence, identification / Miriam Hansen -- From The genius of the system / Thomas Schatz --
• (cont.) Pt.6. Film genres. From The world in a frame / Leo Braudy -- A semantic/syntactic approach to fim genre / Rick Altman -- From Hollywood genres / Thomas Schatz -- Movie chronicle : the Westerner / Robert Warshow -- Ideology, genre, pool / Bruce Kawin -- the teror of pleasure : the contemporary horror film and postmodern theory / Tania Modleski -- Film bodies : gender, genre, and excess / Linda Williams -- The art cinema as a mode of film practice / David Bordwell -- Pt.7. Film : psychology, society, and ideology. The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction / Wlater Benjamin -- Cinema/ideology/criticism / Jean-Luc Comolli and Jean Narboni -- The apparatus : metaphysical approaches to the impression of reality in cinema / Jean-Louis Baudry -- From mystifying movies / Noel Carroll -- From Magic and myth of the movies / Parker Tyler -- From The imaginary signifier / Christian Metz -- An aesthetic of astonishment : early film and the (in)credulous spectator / Tom Gunning -- Visual pleasure and narrative cinema / Laura Mulvey -- Black spectatorship : problems of identification and resistance / Mantha Diawara.

ISBN

0195105982 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^97015809^

OCLC

• 36942436
• SCSB-12084070

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library