Film Theory: An Introduction

Author/Artist/Editor

Robert Stam

Type

Book, Hard Copy

Date

2000

Press/Publisher

Blackwell

Description

This work is an introduction to film theory, particularly aimed at those studying film and literature as it examines issues common to both subjects such as realism, illusionism, narration, style and semiotics.

Important Notes

The antecedents of film theory --
Film and film theory : the beginnings --
Early silent film theory --
The essence of cinema --
The Soviet montage-theorists --
Russian formalism and the Bakhtin School --
The historical avant-gardes --
The debate after sound --
The Frankfurt School --
The phenomenology of realism --
The cult of the auteur --
The Americanization of auteur theory --
Third world film and theory --
The advent of structuralism --
The question of film language --
Cinematic specificity revisited --
Interrogating authorship and genre --
1968 and the leftist turn --
The classic realist text --
The presence of Brecht --
The politics of reflexitivity --
The search for alternative aesthetics --
From linguistics to psychoanalysis --
From feminist intervention --
The postsructuralist mutation --
Textual analysis --
Interpretation and its discontents --
From text to intertext --
The amplification of sound --
The rise of cultural studies --
The birth of the spectator --
Cognitive and analytic theory --
Semiotics revisited --
Just in time : the impact of Deleuze --
The coming out of queer theory --
Multiculturalism, race, and representation --
Third cinema revisited --
Film and the postcolonial --
The poetics and politics of postmodernism --
The social valence of mass-culture --
Post-cinema : digital theory and the new media --
The pluralization of film theory.

Keywords

film, film theory, contextualization

ISSN/ISBN

063120654

Availability

Available

OCLC

40979990