Film Theory

Film Theory An Anthology

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Publisher's Synopsis

This anthology offers a collection of some of the most provocative and influential writings of film theory from the 1960s and 1970s, along with new directions from the last two decades. An introductory essay to the volume sums up developments in film theory from the beginning up through the 1980s, while introductions to specific groupings of essays summarize debates on those issues. Rather than look at film theory in terms of schools and allegiances, the editors investigate questions and problematics: What is the cinema? What is the cinematic apparatus? How do spectators differ in their desires? What is realism? Is realism desirable? Thus psychoanalysis, reception theory, cognitive theory, race theory, and feminism all provide partially valid answers to the question: What does the spectator want? This anthology's goal is to facilitate a polylogue among the theorists who have ignored or maligned one another and to deprovincialize film theory. Film Theory multiplies the perspectives and positions, the situations and locations, from which film theory is spoken.

Book information

ISBN: 9780631206262
Publisher: Wiley
Imprint: Wiley Blackwell
Pub date:
DEWEY: 791.4301
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 862
Weight: 1308g
Height: 230mm
Width: 153mm
Spine width: 46mm