A Companion to Film Theory
Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies
1. Edition July 2003
436 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
This volume of specially commissioned work by experts in the field of film studies provides a comprehensive overview of the field. Its international and interdisciplinary approach will have a broad appeal to those interested in this multifaceted subject.
* Provides a major collection of specially commissioned work by experts in the field of film studies.
* Represents material under a variety of headings, including class, race, gender, queer theory, nation, stars, ethnography, authorship, and spectatorship.
* Offers an international approach to the subject, including coverage of topics such as genre, image, sound, editing, culture industries, early cinema, classical Hollywood, and TV relations and technology.
* Includes concise chapter-by-chapter accounts of the background and current approaches to each topic, followed by a prognostication on the future.
* Considers cinema studies in relation to other forms of knowledge, such as critical studies, anthropology, and literature.
2. Authorship: James Naremore.
3. Genre: Sarah Berry.
4. Enunciation and Narration: André Gaudreault and
François Jost.
5. Film Editing: Lucy Fischer.
6. Film Semiotics: Warren Buckland.
7. Cognitivism: Greg Currie.
8. Psychoanalysis: Richard Allen.
9. Spectatorship and Subjectivity: E. Deidre Pribram.
10. Laura Mulvey Meets Cathrine Tramell Meets the She-Man:
Counter-History, Reclamation, and Incongruity in Lesbian, Gay, and
Queer Film and Media Criticism: Julia Erhart.
11. Is There Class in this Text?: The Repression of Class in
Film and Cultural Studies : David James.
12. Culture Industries: Douglas Kellner.
13. The Political Economy of Film: Janet Wasko.
14. The Work of Theory in the Age of Digital Transformation:
Henry Jenkins.
15. Cultural Exchange: Tom O'Regan.
16. Anthropology for the World: Mass Media: Faye Ginsburg.
17. Psycho's Bad Timing: The Sensual Obsessions of Film Theory:
Toby Miller.
18. Historical Allegory: Ismail Xavier.
19. Every Picture Tells a Story: José Guadalupe Posada's
Photocinematic Graphic Art: Charles Ramirez Berg.
20. On "Historical Poetics," Narrative, and Interpretation: Ira
Bhaskar.
Index.
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New York University. He is the author or editor of a wide range of
work in cultural studies, including A Companion to Cultural
Studies (Ed. Blackwell Publishing, 2001), Technologies of
Truth (1998) and (with Alec McHoul) Popular Culture and
Everyday Life (1998). He is also co-editor of the journal
Social Text and (with Robert Stam) co-editor of Film and
Theory: An Anthology (Blackwell Publishing, 2000).
Robert Stam is Professor in the Cinema Studies
Department at New York University. His many books include Film
Theory: An Introduction (Blackwell Publishing, 1999);
Tropical Multiculturalism: A Comparative History of Race in
Brazilian Cinema and Culture (1997); Unthinking
Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media, with Ella Shohat
(1994), which won the Katherine Singer Kovocs "Best Film Book
Award"; and Subversive Pleasures: Bakhtin, Cultural
Criticism, and Film (1992). He is also co-editor (with Toby
Miller) of Film and Theory: An Anthology (Blackwell
Publishing, 2000).