Film theory : an introduction /: an introduction. ([2017?])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Robert Stam.
• Authors: Stam, Robert, 1941-
• Contents: The antecedents of film theory -- Film and film theory : the beginnings -- Early silent film theory -- The essence of cinema -- The Soviet montage-theorists -- Russian formalism and the Bakhtin School -- The historical avant-gardes -- The debate after sound -- The Frankfurt School -- The phenomenology of realism -- The cult of the auteur -- The Americanization of auteur theory -- Third world film and theory -- The advent of structuralism -- The question of film language -- Cinematic specificity revisited -- Interrogating authorship and genre -- 1968 and the leftist turn -- The classic realist text -- The presence of Brecht -- The politics of reflexitivity -- The search for alternative aesthetics -- From linguistics to psychoanalysis -- From feminist intervention -- The postsructuralist mutation -- Textual analysis -- Interpretation and its discontents -- From text to intertext -- The amplification of sound -- The rise of cultural studies -- The birth of the spectator -- Cognitive and analytic theory -- Semiotics revisited -- Just in time : the impact of Deleuze -- The coming out of queer theory -- Multiculturalism, race, and representation -- Third cinema revisited -- Film and the postcolonial -- The poetics and politics of postmodernism -- The social valence of mass-culture -- Post-cinema : digital theory and the new media -- The pluralization of film theory.
• Publisher Details: Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2000
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 793.43/01; Motion pictures -- Philosophy; Philosophie au cinéma; Motion pictures -- Philosophy; Filmkunst; Filmtheorie; Filmtheorie; Einführung; GAMES / Reference; GAMES / Travel Games; Einführung; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781119491576; 1119491576
• Related ISBNs: 9780631206538; 0631206531; 9780631206545; 063120654X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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