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A companion to film theory

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. This major film theory collection:* 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, postmodernism, culture industries, early
eBook, English, 2004
Blackwell, Oxford, 2004
Motion pictures
1 online resource (vi, 428 pages) : illustrations
9780470998410, 9781405165488, 9780631206446, 9780470998403, 0470998415, 1405165480, 0631206442, 0470998407
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Introduction / Toby Miller
Authorship / James Naremore
Genre / Sarah Berry-Flint
Enunciation and narration / André Gaudreault and François Jost
Film editing / Lucy Fischer
Film semiotics / Warren Buckland
Cognitivism / Gregory Currie
Psychoanalytic film theory / Richard Allen
Spectatorship and subjectivity / E. Deidre Pribram
Laura Mulvey meets Catherine Tramell meets the She-man: counter-history, reclamation, and incongruity in lesbian, gay, and queer film and media criticism / Julia Erhart
Is there class in this text? : the repression of class in film and cultural studies / David James
Culture industries / Douglas Kellner
The political economy of film / Janet Wasko
The work of theory in the age of digital transformation / Henry Jenkins
Cultural exchange / Tom O'Regan
Shooting back : from ethnographic film to indigenous production/ethnography of media / Faye Ginsburg
Psycho's Bad timing : the Sensual obsessions of film theory / Toby Miller
Historical allegory / Ismail Xavier
Every picture tells a story: José Guadalupe Posada's protocinematic graphic art / Charles Ramírez Berg
"Historical poetics," narrative, and interpretation / Ira Bhaskar