Reinventing film studies
By: edited by Christine Gledhill and Linda Williams.
Contributors: Williams, Linda, 1946-; Gledhill, Christine.
Publisher: Arnold; Co-published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 464
Subjects: Film criticism; Motion pictures -- Evaluation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: How films mean, or, from aesthetics to semiotics and half-way back again / Geoffrey Nowell-Smith; title: Why theory? / Gill Brannston; title: Film theory and the revolt against master narratives / Bill Nichols; title: Case study : interpreting Singin' in the rain / Steven Cohan; title: Who (and what) is it for? / Tessa Perkins; title: Dream/Factory / Jane M. Gaines; title: The publicness of cinema / James Donald and Stephanie Hemelryk Donald; title: The politics of cultural address in a 'transitional' cinema : a case study of Indian polular cinema / Ravi S. Vasudevan; title: Reception theory and audience rsearch : the mystery of the vampire's kiss / Henry Jenkins; title: Re-examing stardom : questions of texts, bodies and performance / Christine Geraghty; title: After the classic, the classical and ideology : the differences of realism / Christopher Williams; title: Rethinking genre / Christine Gledhill; title: Judging audinces : th case of the trial movie / Carol J. Clover; title: Introducing film evaluation / Noël Carroll; title: 'Style', posture and idiom : Tarantino's figures of masculinity / Sharon Willis; title: What is film history?, or, the riddle of the sphinxes / Vivian sobchack; title: 'Animated pictures': tales of cinema's forgotten future, after 100 years of films / Tom Gunning; title: The mass production of the senses : classical cinema as vernacular modernism / Miriam Bratu Hansen; title: Discipline and fun : Psycho and postmodern cinema / Linda Williams; title: Film theory and spectatorship in the age of the 'posts' / Robert Stam and Ella Habiba Shohat; title: Digging an old well : the labor of social fantasy in a contemporary Chinese film / Rey Chow; title: Facing up to Hollywood / Ana M. López; title: The end of cinema : multimedia and technological change / Anne Friedberg.