A Companion to Film Theory

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Toby Miller, Robert Stam
John Wiley & Sons, 15 abr 2008 - 440 páginas

This volume of specially commissioned work by experts in the field of film studies provides a comprehensive overview of the field. Its international and interdisciplinary approach will have a broad appeal to those interested in this multifaceted subject.

  • Provides a major collection of specially commissioned work by experts in the field of film studies.
  • Represents material under a variety of headings, including class, race, gender, queer theory, nation, stars, ethnography, authorship, and spectatorship.
  • Offers an international approach to the subject, including coverage of topics such as genre, image, sound, editing, culture industries, early cinema, classical Hollywood, and TV relations and technology.
  • Includes concise chapter-by-chapter accounts of the background and current approaches to each topic, followed by a prognostication on the future.
  • Considers cinema studies in relation to other forms of knowledge, such as critical studies, anthropology, and literature.
 

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1 Introduction
1
2 Authorship
9
3 Genre
25
4 Enunciation and Narration
45
5 Film Editing
64
6 Film Semiotics
84
7 Cognitivism
105
8 Psychoanalytic Film Theory
123
12 Culture Industries
202
13 The Political Economy of Film
221
14 The Work of Theory in the Age of Digital Transformation
234
15 Cultural Exchange
262
16 Shooting Back From Ethnographic Film to Indigenous Production Ethnography of Media
295
17 Psychos Bad Timing The Sensual Obsessions of Film Theory
323
18 Historical Allegory
333
19 Every Picture Tells a Story José Guadalupe Posadas Protocinematic Graphic Art
363

9 Spectatorship and Subjectivity
146
10 Laura Mulvey Meets Catherine Tramell Meets the SheMan CounterHistory Reclamation and Incongruity in Lesbian Gay and Queer Film and Med...
165
11 Is There Class in this Text? The Repression of Class in Film and Cultural Studies
182
20 Historical Poetics Narrative and Interpretation
387
Index
413
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Sobre el autor (2008)

Toby Miller is Professor in the Cinema Studies Department at New York University. He is the author or editor of a wide range of work in cultural studies, including A Companion to Cultural Studies (Ed. Blackwell Publishing, 2001), Technologies of Truth (1998) and (with Alec McHoul) Popular Culture and Everyday Life (1998). He is also co-editor of the journal Social Text and (with Robert Stam) co-editor of Film and Theory: An Anthology (Blackwell Publishing, 2000).

Robert Stam is Professor in the Cinema Studies Department at New York University. His many books include Film Theory: An Introduction (Blackwell Publishing, 1999); Tropical Multiculturalism: A Comparative History of Race in Brazilian Cinema and Culture (1997); Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media, with Ella Shohat (1994), which won the Katherine Singer Kovocs “Best Film Book Award”; and Subversive Pleasures: Bakhtin, Cultural Criticism, and Film (1992). He is also co-editor (with Toby Miller) of Film and Theory: An Anthology (Blackwell Publishing, 2000).

Información bibliográfica

TítuloA Companion to Film Theory
Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies
EditoresToby Miller, Robert Stam
Ediciónreimpresa
EditorJohn Wiley & Sons, 2008
ISBN0470998407, 9780470998403
N.º de páginas440 páginas
  
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