Film theory and criticism : introductory readings /
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| Edition: | 7th ed. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. |
| Description: | xvii, 905 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8353253 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- I. Film Language
- 1. Film Technique [On Editing]
- 2. Film Form Beyond the Shot [The Cinematographic Principle and the Ideogram] The Dramaturgy of Film Form [The Dialectic Approach to Film Form]
- 3. What is Cinema? The Evolution of the Language of Cinema
- 4. Toward a Non-Bourgeois Camera Style
- 5. Film Language Some Points in the Semiotics of Cinema Problems of Denotation in the Fiction Film
- 6. Semiotics and the Cinema
- 7. The Discourse of Pictures: Iconicity and Film Studies
- 8. The Tutor-Code of Classical Cinema
- 9. Against "The System of Suture"
- 10. The Spectator-in-the-Text: The Rhetoric of Stagecoach
- II. Film and Reality
- 1. Theory of Film The Establishment of Physical Existence
- 2. What is Cinema? The Ontology of the Photographic Image The Myth of Total Cinema
- 3. Film As Art The Complete Film
- 4. The Apparatus: Metapsychological Approaches to the Impression of Reality in Cinema
- 5. Mystifying Movies Jean-Louis Baudry and "The Apparatus"
- 6. Modernizing Vision
- 7. Cinema Preface to the English Edition The Origin of the Crisis: Italian Neo-realism and the French New Wave Beyond the Movement-Image
- III. The Film Medium: Image And Sound
- 1. Style and Medium in the Motion Pictures
- 2. Theory of Film The Establishment of Physical Existence
- 3. Theory of the Film The Close-up The Face of Man
- 4. Film As Art Film and Reality The Making of a Film
- 5. Philosophical Problems of Classical Film Theory The Specificity Thesis
- 6. Film/Cinema/Movie Projection
- 7. The World Viewed Photograph and Screen Audience, Actor, and Star Types: Cycles as Genres Ideas of Origin
- 8. Statement on Sound
- 9. The Voice in the Cinema: The Articulation of Body and Space
- 10. Technology and Aesthetics of Film Sound
- IV. Film Narrative and the Other Arts
- 1. What is Cinema? Theater and Cinema
- 2. The World in a Frame Acting: Stage vs. Screen
- 3. Dickens, Griffith, and Ourselves [Dickens, Griffith, Film Today]
- 4. Concepts in Film Theory Adaptation
- 5. Novel to Film
- 6. Narrative Discourse and the Narrator System
- 7. Film Music and Narrative Agency
- 8. Godard and Counter Cinema: Vent d'est
- 9. Cognition and Comprehension: Viewing and Forgetting in Mildred Pierce
- V. The Film Artist
- 1. Notes on the Auteur Theory in 1962
- 2. Signs and Meaning in t