Post-Theory: Reconstructing Film Studies (Wisconsin Studies in Film)
Dissatisfied with the vast body of film criticism bound to the  theories of Sigmund Freud and his disciple Jacques Lacan, David  Bordwell and Noel Carroll have compiled a group of essays that pursue  alternative routes. "If there is an organizing principle to the volume,"  they write in their introduction, "it is that solid film scholarship can  proceed without employing the psychoanalytic frameworks routinely  mandated by the cinema studies establishment." These essays tackle  films of many genres and from many countries. Looking through the  lenses of the anthropologist, the economist, the social critic, the  formalist, the aesthetician, the narratologist, and the cultural historian,  the essayists in this volume offer original, diverse, and erudite  perspectives on the art of the movies.