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What Is Film Theory?

This engaging and accessible book explores major debates in contemporary film theory, providing a detailed introduction to the central arguments advanced by film theorists since the 1960s.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rushton, Richard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Maidenhead : McGraw-Hill International (UK) Ltd., 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front cover; Half title page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Introduction: What is film theory?; 1 Structuralism and semiotics: The foundations of contemporary film theory; 2 Apparatus theory: Jean-Louis Baudry and Christian Metz; 3 Screen theory: Colin MacCabe and Stephen Heath; 4 Feminism and film: Visual pleasure and identificatory practices; 5 Cinemas of the other: Postcolonialism, race and queer theory; 6 Philosophers and film: Gilles Deleuze and Stanley Cavell; 7 Film as art: Historical poetics and neoformalism.
  • 8 The cognitive turn: Narrative comprehension and character identification9 Recent developments: Phenomenology, attractions and audiences; Notes; References; Index; Back cover.