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

    • Title:Film theory and criticism : introductory readings / edited by Leo Braudy, Marshall Cohen.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Braudy, Leo.
      Cohen, Marshall.
    • Published/Created:New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Motion pictures.
    • Edition:6th ed.
    • Description:xviii, 937 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:0195158172 (alk. paper)
    • Contents:I. Film Language
      On Editing / Vsevolod Pudovkin
      Beyond the Shot [The Cinematographic Principle and the Ideogram] / Sergei Eisenstein
      Dramaturgy of Film Form [The Dialectical Approach to Film Form] / Sergei Eisenstein
      Evolution of the Language of Cinema / Andre Bazin
      Toward a Non-Bourgeois Camera Style / Brian Henderson
      Some Points in the Semiotics of the Cinema / Christian Metz
      Problems of Denotation in the Fiction Film / Christian Metz
      Discourse of Pictures: Iconicity and Film Studies / Stephen Prince
      Tutor-Code of Classical Cinema / Daniel Dayan
      Spectator-In-the-Text: The Rhetoric of Stagecoach / Nick Browne
      II. Film and Reality
      Basic Concepts / Siegfried Kracauer
      Cabinet of Dr. Caligari / Siegfried Kracauer
      Ontology of the Photographic Image / Andre Bazin
      Myth of Total Cinema / Andre Bazin
      De Sica: Metteur-en-scene / Andre Bazin
      Complete Film / Rudolf Arnheim
      Cinematography: The Creative Use of Reality / Maya Deren
      From Metaphors on Vision / Stan Brakhage
      Apparatus: Metapsychological Approaches to the Impression of Reality in Cinema / Jean-Louis Baudry
      Jean-Louis Baudry and "The Apparatus" / Noel Carroll
      Preface to the English Edition / Gilles Deleuze
      Origin of the Crisis: Italian Neo-realism and the French New Wave / Gilles Deleuze
      Beyond the Movement-Image / Gilles Deleuze
      True Lies: Perceptual Realism, Digital Images, and Film Theory / Stephen Prince
      III. Film Medium: Image and Sound
      Style and Medium in the Motion Pictures / Erwin Panofsky
      Establishment of Physical Existence / Siegfried Kracauer
      Close-up / Bela Balasz
      Face of Man / Bela Balasz
      Film and Reality / Rudolf Arnheim
      Making of a Film / Rudolf Arnheim
      Specificity Thesis / Noel Carroll
      Projection / Gerald Mast
      Photograph and Screen / Stanley Cavell
      Audience, Actor, and Star / Stanley Cavell
      Types: Cycles as Genres / Stanley Cavell
      Ideas of Origin / 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
      Voice in the Cinema: The Articulation of Body and Space / Mary Ann Doane
      Technology and Aesthetics of Film Sound / John Belton
      Broadcast TV as Sound and Image / John Ellis
      IV. Film Narrative and the Other Arts
      Means of the Photoplay / Hugo Munsterberg
      Theater and Cinema / Andre Bazin
      Acting: Stage vs. Screen / 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 / Dudley Andrew
      Narrative Discourse and the Narrator System / Tom Gunning
      Film Music and Narrative Agency / Jerrold Levinson
      Concept of Cinematic Excess / Kristin Thompson
      Godard and Counter Cinema: Vent d'Est / Peter Wollen
      'Trashing' the Academy: Taste, Excess, and an Emerging Politics of Cinematic Style / Jeffrey Sconce
      V. Film Artist
      Notes on the Auteur Theory in 1962 / Andrew Sarris
      Auteur Theory / Peter Wollen
      How Howard Hawks Brought Baby Up: An Apologia for the Studio System / Richard B. Jewell
      Face of Garbo / Roland Barthes
      Keaton and Chaplin / Gilberto Perez
      Stars as a Cinematic Phenomenon / John Ellis
      Role of the Star in Film History [Joan Crawford] / Robert C. Allen
      Female Stars of the 1940s / Molly Haskell
      Valentino and Female Spectatorship / Miriam Hansen
      "The Whole Equation of Pictures" / Thomas Schatz
      VI. Film Genres
      Genre: The Conventions of Connection / Leo Braudy
      Semantic/Syntactic Approach to Film Genre / Rick Altman
      Film Genre and the Genre Film / 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
      Terror of Pleasure: The Contemporary Horror Film and Postmodern Theory / Tania Modleski
      Art Cinema as a Mode of Film Practice / David Bordwell
      VII. Film: Psychology, Ideology, and Technology
      Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction / Walter Benjamin
      Cinema/Ideology/Criticism / Jean-Luc Comolli and Jean Narboni
      Identification, Mirror / Christian Metz
      Passion for Perceiving / Christian Metz
      Disavowal, Fetishism / Christian Metz
      Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema / Laura Mulvey
      Master's Dollhouse: Rear Window / Tania Modleski
      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
      End of Cinema: Multimedia and Technological Change / Anne Friedberg.
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