New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

7th ed.

xvii, 905 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Previous ed.: 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

from Film technique. [On editing] / Vsevolod Pudovkin -- from Film form. Beyond the shot [the cinematographic principle and the ideogram] ; Dramaturgy of film form [the dialectical approach to film form] / Sergei Eisenstein -- from What is cinema? Evolution of the language of cinema / André Bazin -- Toward a non-bourgeois camera style / Brian Henderson -- from Film language. Some points in the semiotics of cinema ; Problems of denotation in the fiction film / Christian Metz -- Semiotics and the cinema : Metz and Wollen / Gilbert Harman -- Discourse of pictures : iconicity and film studies / Stephen Prince -- Tutor-code of classical cinema / Daniel Dayan -- Against "the system of the suture" / William Rothman -- Spectator-in-the-text : the rhetoric of Stagecoach / Nick Browne -- from Theory of film. Basic concepts / Siegfried Kracauer -- from What is cinema? Ontology of the photographic image ; Myth of total cinema / André Bazin -- from Film as art. Complete film / Rudolf Arnheim -- Apparatus : metapsychological approaches to the impression of reality in cinema / Jean-Louis Baudry -- from Mystifying movies. Jean-Louis Baudry and "The apparatus" / Noël Carroll -- from Vision and visuality. Modernizing vision / Jonathan Crary -- from Cinema 1 and Cinema 2. Preface to the English edition ; Origin of the crisis : Italian neo-realism and the French new wave ; Beyond the movement-image / Gilles Deleuze --

Style and medium in the motion pictures / Erwin Panofsky -- from Theory of film. Establishment of physical existence / Siegfried Kracauer -- from Theory of the film. Close-up ; Face of man / Béla Balász -- from Film as art. Film and reality ; Making of a film / Rudolf Arnheim -- from Philosophical problems of classical film theory. Specificity thesis / Noël Carroll -- from Film/cinema/movie. Projection / Gerald Mast -- from The world viewed. Photograph and screen ; Audience, actor, and star ; Types, cycles as genres ; Ideas of origin / Stanley Cavell -- Statement on sound / Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevelod Pudovkin, Grigori Alexandrov -- Voice in the cinema : the articulation of body and space / Mary Ann Doane -- Technology and aesthetics of film sound / John Belton -- from What is cinema? Theater and cinema / André Bazin -- from The world in a frame. Acting : stage vs. screen / Leo Braudy -- from Film form. Dickens, Griffith, and ourselves ; [Dickens, Griffith, and film today] / Sergei Eisenstein -- from Concepts in film theory. Adaptation / Dudley Andrew -- from Novel to film. Backgrounds / Brian McFarlane -- from D.W. Griffith and the origins of American narrative film. Narrative discourse and the narrator system / Tom Gunning -- Film music and narrative agency / Jerrold Levinson -- Godard and counter cinema ; Vent d'est / Peter Wollen -- from Poetics of cinema. Cognition and comprehension : viewing and forgetting in Mildred Pierce / David Bordwell --

Notes on the auteur theory in 1962 / Andrew Sarris -- from Signs and meaning in the cinema. Auteur theory [Howard Hawks and John Ford] / Peter Wollen -- Face of Garbo / Roland Barthes -- from The material ghost. [On Keaton and Chaplin] / Gilberto Perez -- From Stars / Richard Dyer -- from Acting in the cinema. Katherine Hepburn in Holiday / James Naremore -- from From reverence to rape. Female stars of the 1940s / Molly Haskell -- How Howard Hawks brought Baby up : an Apologia for the studio system / Richard B. Jewell -- from The genius of the system. "Whole equation of pictures" / Thomas Schatz -- from The world in a frame. Genre : the conventions of connection / Leo Braudy -- Semantic/syntactic approach to film genre / Rick Altman -- from Hollywood genres. Film genre and the genre film / Thomas Schatz -- Gangster as tragic hero / Robert Warshow -- Notes on film noir / Paul Schrader -- Ideology, genre, auteur / Robin Wood -- Film bodies : gender, genre, and excess / Linda Williams -- Terror of pleasure : the contemporary horror film and postmodern theory / Tania Modleski -- Feminist frameworks for horror films / Cynthia A. Freeland -- Art cinema as a mode of film practice / David Bordwell --

Work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction / Walter Benjamin -- Cinema/ideology/criticism / Jean-Luc Comolli, Jean Narboni -- from The imaginary signifier. Identification, mirror ; Passion for perceiving ; Disavowal, fetishism / Christian Metz -- Visual pleasure and narrative cinema / Laura Mulvey -- from The women who knew too much : Hitchcock and feminist theory. Master's dollhouse : Rear window / Tania Modleski -- Aesthetic of astonishment : early film and the (in)credulous spectator / Tom Gunning -- Colonialism, racism, and representation : an introduction / Robert Stam, Louise Spence -- Black spectatorship : problems of identification and resistance / Manthia Diawara -- from The language of new media. Synthetic realism and its discontents ; Synthetic image and its subject ; Digital cinema and the history of a moving image / Lev Manovich -- End of cinema : multimedia and technological change / Anne Friedberg -- from Change mummified / Philip Rosen -- Impact of digital technologies on film aesthetics / Michael Allen -- Tales of upward mobility : the new verticality and digital special effects / Kristen Whissel -- Reconceptualizing national cinema(s) / Stephen Crofts -- Difficulty of being radical : the discipline of film studies and the postcolonial world order / Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto -- Issues in world cinema / Wimal Dissanayake.

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Braudy, Leo.

Cohen, Marshall.

Film theory & criticism.

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