Film and stereotype
Subtitle: a challenge for cinema and theory
By: Jörg Schweinitz ; translated by Laura Schleussner
Series: Film and culture series; Film and culture
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780231151481; 9780231151498; 9780231525213
Subjects: Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures
Work titles: Film und Stereotyp
Notes: Translated from German.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Stereotype theory: concepts, perspectives, and controversies. The stereotype in psychology and the humanities; title: Some aspects and levels of stereotypization in film; title: The intellectual viewpoint versus the stereotype in mass culture; title: A discourse history: the topic of the "stereotype" throughout film theory; title: Prelude : Walther Rathenau's cultural criticism, Hugo Munsterberg's Euphoric; title: Concept of film as art, and the neglect of the stereotype; title: Bela Balazs's new visual culture, the tradition of linguistic skepticism, and Robert Musil's notion of the "formulaic"; title: The readymade products of the fantasy machine : Rudolf Arnheim, Rene Fulop-Miller, and the discourse on the "standardization" of film; title: The stereotype as intelligible form : Cohen-Seat, Morin, and semiology; title: Irony and transfiguration : the postmodern view of the stereotype; title: Film analysis : critique and transfiguration-three case studies; title: Enjoying the stereotype and intense double-play acting : the performance of Jennifer Jason Leigh in the Hudsucker proxy; title: Epilogue.