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Film and theory : an anthology / edited by Robert Stam and Toby Miller.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: Spanish Publication details: Malden ; Oxford : Blackwell Publishers, 2000.Description: XVIII, 862 str. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0631206256
  • 9780631206255
  • 0631206264 (pbk.: alk. paper)
  • 9780631206262 (pbk.: alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.4301
LOC classification:
  • PN 1994 F487 2000
Contents:
The author. Dennis Porter and the question of the television author / Rosalind Coward ; To desire differently : feminism and the French cinema / Sandy Flitterman-Lewis ; The unauthorized auteur today / Dudley Andrew -- Film language/specificity. The specificity of media in the arts / Noël Carroll ; For a semio-pragmatics of film / Roger Odin ; The scene of the screen : envisioning cinmatic and electronic "presence" / Vivian Sobchack -- The image and technology. Necessities and constraints : a pattern of technological change / Brian Winston ; Projections of sound on image / Michel Chion ; Modes of production : the televisual apparatus / John T. Caldwell -- Text and intertext. Question of genre / Steve Neale ; A semantic/syntactic approach to film genre / Rick Altman ; The "force-field" of melodrama / Stuart Cunningham ; Film bodies : gender, genre and excess / Linda Williams -- The question of realism. The cinema of attraction : early film, its spectator and th avant-garde / Tom Gunning ; Black American cinema : the new realism / Manthia Diawara -- Alternative aesthetics. Towards a third cinema / Fernando Solanas and Octavio Gettino ; For an imperfect cinema / Julio García Espinosa ; Towards a critical theory of Third World films / Teshome H. Gabriel ; Rethinking women's cinema : aesthetics and feminist theory / Teresa de Lauretis -- The historical spectator/audience. Cowboys and Indians : perceptions of Western films among American Indians and Anglos / Jo Ellen Shively ; Television news and its spectator / Robert Stam ; Addressing th spectator of a "Third World" national cinema : the Bombay "social" film of the 1940s and 1950s / Ravi S. Vasudevan -- Apparatus theory. The imaginary signifier / Christian Metz ; The orthopsychic subject : film theory and the reception of Lacan / Joan Copjec ; Feminism, film theory and the bachelor machines / Constance Penlet -- The nature of the gaze. Visual pleasure and narrative cinema / Laura Mulvey ; Film and the masquerade : theorizing the female spectator / Mary Ann Doane ; The oppositional gaze : Black female spectators / bell hooks ; Looking awry / Slavoj Žižek -- Class and the culture industries. Constituents of a theory of the media / Hans Magnus Enzensberger ; Ideology, economy and the British cinema / John Hill ; Mass culture and the feminine : the "place" of television in film studies / Patrice Petro -- Stars and performance. Heavenly bodies : film stars and society / Richard Dyer ; The she-man : postmodern bi-sexed performance in film and video / Chris Straayer ; Roseanne : unruly woman as domestic goddess / Kathleen K. Rowe ; Marlon Brando in On the waterfront / James Naremore -- Permutations of difference. Gender and culture of empire : toward a feminist ethnography of the cinema / Ella Shohat ; Fantasies of the master race : categories of stereotyping of American Indians infilm / Ward Churchill ; Cultural identity and cinematic representation / Stuart Hall ; White privilege and looking relations : race and gender in feminist film theory / Jane Gaines ; White / Richard Dyer -- The politics of postmodernism. Television and postmodernism / Jim Collins ; Critical and textual hypermasculinity / Lynne Joyrich ; "In my Weekend-only world ..." : reconsidering fandom / Henry Jenkins.
Summary: This anthology aims to offer a collection of provocative and influential writings on film theory. Rather than look at film theory in terms of schools and allegiances, it investigates questions and problematics such as what is the cinema, what is realism and what does the spectator want?
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) PN 1994 F487 2000 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000074491

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Izbrana bibliografija: str. 800-830.

Index: str. 831-862.

The author. Dennis Porter and the question of the television author / Rosalind Coward ; To desire differently : feminism and the French cinema / Sandy Flitterman-Lewis ; The unauthorized auteur today / Dudley Andrew --
Film language/specificity. The specificity of media in the arts / Noël Carroll ; For a semio-pragmatics of film / Roger Odin ; The scene of the screen : envisioning cinmatic and electronic "presence" / Vivian Sobchack --
The image and technology. Necessities and constraints : a pattern of technological change / Brian Winston ; Projections of sound on image / Michel Chion ; Modes of production : the televisual apparatus / John T. Caldwell --
Text and intertext. Question of genre / Steve Neale ; A semantic/syntactic approach to film genre / Rick Altman ; The "force-field" of melodrama / Stuart Cunningham ; Film bodies : gender, genre and excess / Linda Williams --
The question of realism. The cinema of attraction : early film, its spectator and th avant-garde / Tom Gunning ; Black American cinema : the new realism / Manthia Diawara --
Alternative aesthetics. Towards a third cinema / Fernando Solanas and Octavio Gettino ; For an imperfect cinema / Julio García Espinosa ; Towards a critical theory of Third World films / Teshome H. Gabriel ; Rethinking women's cinema : aesthetics and feminist theory / Teresa de Lauretis --
The historical spectator/audience. Cowboys and Indians : perceptions of Western films among American Indians and Anglos / Jo Ellen Shively ; Television news and its spectator / Robert Stam ; Addressing th spectator of a "Third World" national cinema : the Bombay "social" film of the 1940s and 1950s / Ravi S. Vasudevan --
Apparatus theory. The imaginary signifier / Christian Metz ; The orthopsychic subject : film theory and the reception of Lacan / Joan Copjec ; Feminism, film theory and the bachelor machines / Constance Penlet --
The nature of the gaze. Visual pleasure and narrative cinema / Laura Mulvey ; Film and the masquerade : theorizing the female spectator / Mary Ann Doane ; The oppositional gaze : Black female spectators / bell hooks ; Looking awry / Slavoj Žižek --
Class and the culture industries. Constituents of a theory of the media / Hans Magnus Enzensberger ; Ideology, economy and the British cinema / John Hill ; Mass culture and the feminine : the "place" of television in film studies / Patrice Petro --
Stars and performance. Heavenly bodies : film stars and society / Richard Dyer ; The she-man : postmodern bi-sexed performance in film and video / Chris Straayer ; Roseanne : unruly woman as domestic goddess / Kathleen K. Rowe ; Marlon Brando in On the waterfront / James Naremore --
Permutations of difference. Gender and culture of empire : toward a feminist ethnography of the cinema / Ella Shohat ; Fantasies of the master race : categories of stereotyping of American Indians infilm / Ward Churchill ; Cultural identity and cinematic representation / Stuart Hall ; White privilege and looking relations : race and gender in feminist film theory / Jane Gaines ; White / Richard Dyer --
The politics of postmodernism. Television and postmodernism / Jim Collins ; Critical and textual hypermasculinity / Lynne Joyrich ; "In my Weekend-only world ..." : reconsidering fandom / Henry Jenkins.

This anthology aims to offer a collection of provocative and influential writings on film theory. Rather than look at film theory in terms of schools and allegiances, it investigates questions and problematics such as what is the cinema, what is realism and what does the spectator want?

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