A Companion to Film Theory

by Miller, Toby; Stam, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780631206446
• ISBN10: 0631206442
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-11-01
• Publisher: Blackwell Pub

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(8)
Toby Miller
Authorship	9	(16)
James Naremore
Genre	25	(20)
Sarah Berry
Enunciation and Narration	45	(19)
Andre Gaudreault
Francois Jost
Film Editing	64	(20)
Lucy Fischer
Film Semiotics	84	(21)
Warren Buckland
Cognitivism	105	(18)
Gregory Currie
Psychoanalytic Film Theory	123	(23)
Richard Allen
Spectatorship and Subjectivity	146	(19)
E. Deidre Pribram
Laura Mulvey Meets Catherine Tramell Meets the She-Man: Counter-History, Reclamation, and Incongruity in Lesbian, Gay, and Queer Film and Media Criticism	165	(17)
Julia Erhart
Is There Class in this Text?: The Repression of Class in Film and Cultural Studies	182	(20)
David James
Culture Industries	202	(19)
Douglas Kellner
The Political Economy of Film	221	(13)
Janet Wasko
The Work of Theory in the Age of Digital Transformation	234	(28)
Henry Jenkins
Cultural Exchange	262	(33)
Tom O'Regan
Shooting Back: From Ethnographic Film to Indigenous Production/Ethnography of Media	295	(28)
Faye Ginsburg
Psycho's Bad Timing: The Sensual Obsessions of Film Theory	323	(10)
Toby Miller
Historical Allegory	333	(30)
Ismail Xavier
Every Picture Tells a Story: Jose Guadalupe Posada's Protocinematic Graphic Art	363	(24)
Charles Ramirez Berg
``Historical Poetics,'' Narrative, and Interpretation	387	(26)
Ira Bhaskar
Index	413