Film theory
Subtitle: an introduction
By: Robert Lapsley and Michael Westlake.
Contributors: Westlake, Michael.
Series: Images of culture
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Manchester, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Motion pictures.
Description: An account of film theory aimed at teh cinemagoer and the student. It ranges from the late 1960s to the present, a period in which a number of conceptual strands were woven together. The authors chart the construction of this synthesis and its subsequent fragmentation, and elucidate the various intellectual currents contributing to it. The authors trace the shift from Althusserian Marxism to Lacanian psychoanalysis as the dominant paradigms for discussing aesthetic questions.--From book jacket.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [238]-240.
Includes index.