Film theory
Subtitle: rational reconstructions
By: Warren Buckland
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780415590976; 9780415590983; 9780203143667
Subjects: Motion pictures; Philosophy; Film criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: An improbable alliance : Peter Wollen's "The auteur theory"; title: Visual stylometry : Barry Salt's "Statistical style analysis of motion pictures"; title: Between Shakespeare and Sirk : Thomas Elsaesser's "Tales of sound and fury: observations on the family melodrama"; title: From iconicity to semiotic articulation : Christian Metz's "cinema: language or language system?" and language and cinema; title: Film as a specific signifying practice : Stephen Heath's "On screen, in frame: film and ideology"; title: Against theories of reflection : Laura Mulvey's "Visual pleasure and narrative cinema"; title: Early cinema spectatorship : Tom Gunning's "The cinema of attraction(s): early film, its spectator, and the avant-garde"; title: Another Lacan : "the universal: suture revisited"; title: The death of the camera : Edward Branigan's "What is a camera?"; title: Conclusion: teaching theory.