Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Braudy, Leo.
• Cohen, Marshall.

Description

xviii, 937 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Focuses on the trends in film technology and viewership, treating film studies as an extension of cultural studies. This work takes into account the attendant theoretical considerations." - publisher.

Subject

• Motion pictures
• 24.31 theory and aesthetics of film art
• Motion pictures
• Filmkritik
• Filmtheorie
• Filmtheorie
• Filmrecensies

Genre/Form

• Motion pictures
• Motion pictures.
• Films.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• I. Film language. From Film technique / Vsevolod Pudovkin -- From Film form / Sergei Eisenstein -- From What is cinema? / André Bazin -- Toward a non-bourgeois camera style / Brian Henderson -- From Film language / Christian Metz -- The discourse of pictures : iconicity and film studies / Stephen Prince -- The tutor-code of classical cinema / Daniel Dayan -- The spectator-in-the-text : the rhetoric of Stagecoach / Nick Browne -- II. Film and reality. From Theory of film ; From From Caligari to Hitler / Siegfried Kracauer -- From What is cinema? / André Bazin -- From Film as art / Rudolf Arnheim -- Cinematography : the creative use of reality / Maya Deren -- From Metaphors on vision / Stan Brakhage -- The apparatus : metapsychological approaches to impression of reality in cinema -- From Mystifying movies / Noël Carroll -- From Cinema 1 and Cinema 2 / Gilles Deleuze -- True lies : perceptual realism, digital images, and film theory / Stephen Prince.
• III. 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 / Béla Balász -- From Film as art / Rudolf Arnheim -- From Philosophical problems of classical film theory / Noël Carroll -- From Film/cinema/movie / Gerald Mast -- From The world viewed / Stanley Cavell -- Ideological effects of the basic cinematographic apparatus / Jean-Louis Baudry -- Aural objects / Christian Metz -- Statement on sound / Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, and Grigori Alexandrov -- The voice in the cinema : the articulation of body and space / Mary Ann Doane -- Technology and aesthetics of film and sound / John Belton -- From Visible fictions / John Ellis -- IV. Film narrative and the other arts. From The film : a psychological study / Hugo Münsterberg -- From What is cinema? / André Bazin -- From The world in a frame / Leo Brady -- Dickens, Griffith, and ourselves [Dickens, Griffith, and film today] / Sergei Eisenstein -- What novels can do that films can't (and vice versa) / Seymour Chatman -- From Concepts to film theory / Dudley Andrew -- Narrative discourse and the narrator system / Tom Gunning -- Film music and narrative agency / Jerrold Levinson -- The concept of cinematic excess / Kristin Thompson -- Godard and counter cinema : Vent d'Ést -- 'Trashing' the Academy : taste, excess, and an emerging politics of cinematic style / Jeffrey Sconce.
• V. The film artist. Notes on the auteur theory in 1962 / Andrew Sarris -- From Signs and meaning in the cinema / Peter Wollen -- How Howard Hawks brought Baby up : an apologia for the studio system / Richard B. Jewell -- The face of Garbo / Roland Barthes -- From The material ghost / Gilberto Perez -- From Visible fictions / John Ellis -- From Film history : theory and practice / Robert C. Allen -- From From reverence to rape / Molly Haskell -- Pleasure, ambivalence, identification / Miriam Hansen -- From The genius of the system / Thomas Schatz -- VI. Film genres. From The world in a frame / Leo Brady -- A semantic/syntactic approach to film genre / Rick Altman -- From Hollywood genres / Thomas Schatz -- Movie chronicle : the Westerner / Robert Warshow -- Ideology, genre, auteur / Robin Wood -- Film bodies : gender, genre, and excess / Linda Williams -- Feminist frameworks for horror films / Cynthia A. Freeland -- The terror of pleasure : the contemporary horror film and postmodern theory / Tania Modleski -- The art cinema as a mode of film practice / David Bordwell.
• VII. Film : psychology, ideology, and technology. The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction / Walter Benjamin -- Cinema/ideology/criticism / Jean-Luc Comolli and Jean Narboni -- From The imaginary signifier / Christian Metz -- Visual pleasure and narrative cinema / Laura Mulvey -- From The women who knew you too much : Hitchcock and feminist theory / Tania Modelski -- An aesthetic of astonishment : early film and the (in)credulous spectator / Tom Gunning -- Colonialism, racism, and representation : an introduction / Robert Stam and Louise Spence -- Black spectatorship : problems of identification and resistance / Manthia Diawara -- Digital cinema : a false revolution / John Belton -- The end of cinema : multimedia and technological change / Anne Friedberg.

ISBN

• 0195158172
• 9780195158175

LCCN

• 2003066222
• 9780195158175

OCLC

• ocm53276728
• 53276728
• SCSB-14727314

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library