Film theory and criticism : introductory readings / edited by Leo Braudy, Marshall Cohen.
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New York :
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1999.
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Table of Contents:
- I. Film Language
- [On editing] (from Film technique) / Vsevolod Pudovkin - Beyond the shot [The cinematographic principle and the ideogram] & The dramaturgy of film form [The dialectical approach to film form] (from Film form) / Sergei Eisenstein - The evolution of the language of cinema (from What is cinema?) / André Bazin - Toward a non-bourgeois camera style / Brian Henderson - Some points in the semiotics of the cinema & Problems of denotation in the fiction film (from Film language) / Christian Metz - Semiotics and the cinema : Metz and Wollen / Gilbert Harman - The discourse of pictures : inconicity and film studies / Stephen Prince - The tutor-code of classical cinema / Daniel Dayan - Against 'The system of the suture' / William Rothman - [On suture] (from The subject of semiotics) / Kaja Silverman - The spectator-in-the-text : the rhetoric of Stagecoach / Nick Browne
- II. Film and Reality
- Basic concepts (from Theory of film) / Siegfried Kracauer - The Cabinet of Dr. Galigari (From Caligari to Hitler) / Siegfried Kracauer - The ontology of the photographic image [&] The myth of total cinema [&] De SIca : Metteur-en-scène (from What is cinema?) / André Bazin - The complete film (from Film as art) / Rudolf Arnheim - Cineamatography : 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
- III. The Film Medium : image and sound
- Style and medium in the motion pictures / Erwin Panofsky - The establishment of physical existence (from Theory of film) / Siegfried Kracauer - The close-up (&) The face of man (from Theory of the film) / Béla Balász - Film and reality [&] The making of a film (from Film as art) / Rudolf Arnheim - The specificity thesis (from Philosophical problems of classical film theory) / Noël Carroll - Project (from Film-Cinema-Movie) / Gerald Mast - Photograph and screen [&] Audience, actor and star [&] Types : cycles as genres [&] Ideas of origin (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 Doan - Technology and aesthetics of film sound / John Belton - Broadcast TV as sound and image (from Visible fictions) / John Ellis
- IV. Film Narrative and the other Arts
- The means of the photoplay (from The film : a psychological study) / Hugo Münsterberg - Theater and cinema (from What is cinema?) / André Bazin - Acting : stage vs. screen (from The world in a frame) / Leo Braudy - Dickens, Griffith and ourselves (Dickens, Griffith and film today) / Sergei Eisenstein - What novels can do that films can't (and vice versa) / Seymour Chatman - Adaptation (from Concepts in film theory) / Dudly Andrew - Narrative discourse and the narrator system / Tom Gunning - The cinematic narrator (from Coming to terms ) / Seymour Chatman - The concept of cinematic excess / Kristin Thompson - Godard and counter cinema : Vent d'Est / Peter Wollen
- V. The Film Artists
- Notes on the auteur theory in 1962 / Andrew Sarris - The auteur theory (from Signs and meaning in the cinema) / Peter Wollen - The face of Garbo / Roland Barthes - Stars as a cinematic phenomenon (from Visible fictions) / John Ellis - The role of the star in film history [Joan Crawford] (from Film history : theory and practice) / Robert C. Allen - Female stars of the 1940s (from From reverance to rape) / Molly Haskell - The Mae West nobody knows (from Women and their sexuality in the new film) / Joan Mellen - Valentino and female spectatorship (Pleasure, ambivalence, identification) / Miriam Hansen - 'The whole equation of pictures' (from The genius of the system) / Thomas Schatz
- VI. Film Genres
- Genre : the conventions of connection (from The world in a frame) / Leo Braudy - A semantic-syntactic approach to film genre / Rick Altman - Film genre and the genre film (from Hollywood genres) / Thomas Schatz - Movie chronicles : the Westerner / Robert Warshow - Ideology, genre, auteur / Robin Wood - The mummy's pool / Bruce Kawin - The terror 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
- VII. Film : Psychology, Society and Ideology
- The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction / Walter Benjamin - Cinema-Ideology-Cricism / Jean-Luc Comolli and Jean Narboni - The appratus : metapsychological approachs to the impression of reality in cinema / Jean-Louis Baudry - Jean-Louis Baudry and 'The apparatus' (from Mystifying movies) / Nöel Carroll - Preface (from Magic and the myth of the movies) / Parker Tyler - Identification, mirror [&] The passion for perceiving [&] Disavowal, fetishism (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 / Manthia Diawara.
