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Ranging from the mass culture critics to post-colonial and queer theory, this reader is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the main theoretical approaches within film studies. It provides students with an opportunity to engage with primary sources in the form of extracts from key critics white also offering a general, introduction and chapter introductions that help to locate the extracts in historical, contexts and explain their contributions to, and interventions in, debates within the study of film. Among the distinguished contributors are Tom Gunning, Steven Cohan, Janet Staiger, James Naremore, Jim Kitses, Carol Clover, and Jane Gaines.

Preface

ix

Acknowledgements

xi

Section One: Political Economy and Mass Culture Theory

1

(44)

`The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception'

7

(5)

Theodor W. Adorno

Max Horkheimer

`A Theory of Mass Culture'

12

(7)

Dwight Macdonald

`Concepts of Culture: Public Policy and the Cultural Industries'

19

(4)

Nicholas Garnham

```Holy Commodity Fetish, Batman!''': The Political Economy of a Commercial Intertext

23

(10)

Eileen R. Meehan

`Hooray for Hollywood: Moving into the Twenty-First Century'

33

(12)

Janet Wasko

Section Two: Film and Authorship

45

(38)

`The Filmwright and the Audience'

53

(2)

Thorold Dickinson

`A Playwright Looks at the ``Filmwright'''

55

(3)

Howard Koch

`A Certain Tendency of the French Cinema'

58

(5)

Francois Truffaut

`Films, Directors and Critics'

63

(5)

Ian Cameron

`Notes on the Auteur Theory in 1962'

68

(3)

Andrew Sarris

`The Auteur Theory'

71

(7)

Peter Wollen

`Hawks de-wollenized'

78

(5)

Robin Wood

Section Three: Genre Criticism

83

(32)

`Authorship and Genre: Notes on the Western'

89

(6)

Jim Kitses

`Critical Method...Genre'

95

(3)

Andrew Tudor

`Extract from Genre'

98

(4)

Steve Neale

`The Woman's Film'

102

(4)

Christine Geraghty

`American Film Noir: The History of an Idea'

106

(9)

James Naremore

Section Four: Star Studies

115

(40)

`Stars as Images'

121

(3)

Richard Dyer

`Stars and ``Character'''

124

(4)

Richard Dyer

`Living Stars'

128

(6)

Richard Dyer

`Stars and the Star System: The Case of Bette Davis'

134

(5)

Maria LaPlace

`Cary Grant in the Fifties: Indiscretions of the Bachelor's Masquerade'

139

(8)

Steven Cohan

`Feminine Fascinations: Forms of Identification in Star-Audience Relations'

147

(8)

Jackie Stacey

Section Five: The Historical Poetics of Cinema

155

(34)

`The Cinema of Attractions: Early Film, Its Spectator and the Avant-Garde'

161

(5)

Tom Gunning

`The Classical Hollywood Cinema'

166

(8)

Richard Maltby

`Post-Classical Hollywood'

174

(7)

Peter Kramer

`Taboos and Totems: Cultural Meanings of The Silence of the Lambs'

181

(8)

Janet Staiger

Section Six: Screen Theory I: From Marxism to Psychoanalysis

189

(38)

`Cinema/Ideology/Criticism'

197

(4)

Jean-Luc Comolli

Paul Narboni

`Realism and the Cinema: Notes on Some Brechtian Theses'

201

(5)

Colin MacCabe

`Narrative and Realism'

206

(7)

John Hill

`The Imaginary Signifier'

213

(6)

Christian Metz

`The Tutor-Code of Classical Cinema'

219

(8)

Daniel Dayan

Section Seven: Screen Theory II: Psychoanalysis, Feminism and Film

227

(38)

`The Place of Woman in the Cinema of Raoul Walsh'

233

(5)

Pam Cook

Claire Johnston

`Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema'

238

(10)

Laura Mulvey

`Film and the Masquerade: Theorizing the Female Spectator

248

(8)

Mary Ann Doane

`Her Body, Himself'

256

(9)

Carol J. Clover

Section Eight: Cultural Studies

265

(44)

`Gramsci Goes to Hollwood'

271

(3)

Iain Chambers

`Texts, Readers, Subjects'

274

(8)

David Morley

`Technology and Tradition: Audio-Visual Culture among South Asian Families in West London'

282

(7)

Marie Gillespie

`Post-Feminism and Shopping Films'

289

(10)

Charlotte Brunsdon

`Film History Terminable and Interminable: Recovering the Past in Reception Studies'

299

(10)

Barbara Klinger

Section Nine: Theorizing Differences

309

(48)

`Colonialism, Racism and Representation': An Introduction

315

(7)

Robert Stam

Louise Spence

`White Privilege and Looking Relations: Race and Gender in Feminist Film Theory'

322

(7)

Jane Gaines

`Feminism, ``The Boyz'' and Other Matters Regarding the Male'

329

(8)

Robyn Wiegman

`There's Something Queer Here'

337

(10)

Alexander Doty

`On Not Being Lady Macbeth: Some (Troubled) Thoughts on Lesbian Spectatorship'

347

(10)

Tamsin Wilton

Index

357

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