Weimar thought : a contested legacy

Table of Contents: “…Gordon -- Method, moment, and crisis in Weimar science / Cathryn Carson -- Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer, and Weimar criticism / Michael Jennings -- Writers and politics in the Weimar Republic / Karin Gunnemann -- Aesthetic fundamentalism in Weimar poetry : Stefan George and his circle, 1918-1933 / Martin A. Ruehl -- Weimar film theory / Sabine Hake -- The politics of art and architecture at the Bauhaus, 1919-1933 / John V. …”
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Weimar thought : a contested legacy

Table of Contents: “…Gordon -- Method, moment, and crisis in Weimar science / Cathryn Carson -- Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer, and Weimar criticism / Michael Jennings -- Writers and politics in the Weimar Republic / Karin Gunnemann -- Aesthetic fundamentalism in Weimar poetry : Stefan George and his circle, 1918-1933 / Martin A. Ruehl -- Weimar film theory / Sabine Hake -- The politics of art and architecture at the Bauhaus, 1919-1933 / John V. …”
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Global neorealism : the transnational history of a film style

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the geography and history of global neorealism / Saverio Giovacchini and Robert Sklar -- Before the (Neorealist) revolution / Vito Zagarrio -- Soviet-Italian cinematic exchanges, 1920s 1950s: from early Soviet film theory to neorealism / Masha Salazkina -- The role of documentary film in the formation of the neorealist cinema / Luca Caminati -- "The exalted spirit of the actual": James Agee, critic and filmmaker, and the U.S. response to neorealism / Robert Sklar -- Marketing meaning, branding neorealism: advertising and promoting Italian cinema in postwar America / Nathaniel Brennan -- Neorealism: another "cinema de papa" for the French new wave? …”
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Multimodal metaphor

Table of Contents: “…Zbikowski -- The role of non-verbal sound and music in multimodal metaphor / Charles Forceville -- Multimodal metaphor in classical film theory from the 1920s to the 1950s / Mats Rohdin -- Multimodal expressions of the human victim is animal metaphor in horror films / Gunnar Theodór Eggertsson and Charles Forceville.…”
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Framing the environmental humanities

Table of Contents: “…Ours -- Cognitivist film theory and the bioculturalist turn in eco-film studies / David Ingram -- Framing the alien, teaching District 9 / Roman Bartosch -- The nature study idea : framing nature for children in early twentieth century schools / Dorothy Kass -- Matter, meaning, and the classroom : a case-study / Isabel Hoving -- Postscript : framing the environmental humanities / Hannes Bergthaller and Peter Mortensen.…”
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The Edinburgh companion to poststructuralism by Dillet, Benoît

Table of Contents: “…Photography and poststructuralism : the indexical and iconic sign system / Sarah Edge -- Deleuze and the image of film theory / Conn Holohan -- The museum of now / Anna Cutler -- Institutions, semiotics and the politics of subjectivity / Michael A. …”
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Animal Life and the Moving Image

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Medium Foreword; Introduction: Animal Lives and Moving Images; PART 1: ANIMAL LIFE AND CINEMATIC SPECIFICITY; 1 Animal Photogénie: The Wild Side of French Film Theory's First Wave; 2 Cats and the Moving Image: Feline Cinematicity from Lumière to Maru; 3 Buñuel's Bull Meets YouTube's Lion: Surrealist and Digital Posthumanisms; 4 Muybridgean Motion/Materialist Film: Malcolm Le Grice's Berlin Horse; PART 2: CROSS-SPECIES IDENTIFICATIONS.…”
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Futurist cinema : studies on Italian avant-garde film

Table of Contents: “…Speed and Dynamism: Futurism and the Soviet Cinematographic Avant-garde / Paolo Bertetto -- 3. Futurism and Film Theories: Manifesto of Futurist Cinema and Theories in Italy in the 1910-1920s / Valentina Valente -- 4. …”
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Narrative absorption

Table of Contents: “…Kuijpers -- Spellbound in darkness: Narrative absorption discussed by film theory / Frank Kessler -- Antecedents of identification: Character, text, and audiences / Jonathan Cohen and Nurit Tal-Or -- Empirical studies on narrative absorption. …”
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Imaginary boundaries of justice : social justice across disciplines

Table of Contents: “…The Subject of Surveillance: Notes on Mann''s ''Heat'' and Kieślowski''s ''Three Colours: Red''; SEMIOTICS AND THE STUDY OF VISUAL CULTURE; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND FILM THEORY; PSYCHOANALYSIS VERSUS SURVEILLANCE; THREE COLOURS: RED; SURVEILLANCE, TRAGEDY, AND THE GAZE: MICHAEL MANN'S HEAT; CONCLUSION.…”
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Reclaiming the archive : feminism and film history

Table of Contents: “…Unmasking the gaze: feminist film theory, history, and film studies / Laura Mulvey -- Les Belles Dames sans merci, femmes fatales, vampires, vamps, and gold diggers: The Transformation and narrative value of aggressive fallen women / Janet Staiger -- "I wanted life to be romantic, and I wanted to be thin" : Girls Growing Up with cinema in the 1930s / Annette Kuhn -- The "true love" of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton / Suzanne Leonard -- "She will never look": film spectatorship, black feminism, and scary subjectivities / Terri Simone Francis -- Rewriting authorship. …”
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The cinema of attractions reloaded

Table of Contents: “…From "Primitive Cinema" to "Kine-Attractography" / André Gaudreault -- From "Primitive Cinema" to "Marvelous" / Wanda Strauven -- The Attraction of the Intelligent Eye: Obsessions with the Vision Machine in Early Film Theories / Viva Paci -- Rhythmic Bodies/Movies: Dance as Attraction in Early Film Culture / Laurent Guido -- Audiences and Attractions ["Its Spectator"]. …”
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Cinema as weather : stylistic screens and atmospheric change by McKim, Kristi, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Cinema as Weather; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Revealing Skies and Screens: The Confluence of Weather and Cinema; Storms, Miracles, and Unusual Weather; Skies, Screens, and Collective Experience; Weather in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction; Revealing the Weather in Film Theory; Cinematic Weather as Cinephilic History; Cinema as Weather: Scholarly and Lived; 2 The Cinematic History of Weather and the History of Cinematic Weather; The Cinematic History of Weather; Meteorology and Perception; Cinematic Landscapes.…”
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Routledge Handbook of Japanese Cinema by Bernardi, Joanne

Table of Contents: “…4 When Marnie Was There: female friendship film and the genealogy of queer girls' culture -- 5 Making sense of Nakai Masakazu's film theory, "Kino Satz" -- 6 Geysers of another nature: the optical unconscious of the Japanese science film -- PART II Questions of industry: critical studies of regulatory frameworks, creative labor, and distributive networks -- 7 Kaiju films as exportable content: reassessing the function of the Japanese Film Export Promotion Association -- 8 "Fugitives" from the studio system: Ikebe Ryō, Sada Keiji, and the transition from cinema to television in the early 1960s…”
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A companion to early cinema

Table of Contents: “…/ Rob King -- Sensationalism and Early Cinema / Annemone Ligensa -- From Craft to Industry: Series and Serial Production Discourses and Practices in France / Laurent Le Forestier -- Awareness of Film, Language and Self in Early American Film Publications / Santiago Hidalgo -- Early Cinema and Film Theory / Roger Odin -- Early Cinema Forms. A Bunch of Violets / Ben Brewster -- Modernity Stops at Nothing: The American Chase Film and the Specter of Lynching / Jan Olsson -- "The Knowledge Which Comes in Pictures": Educational Films and Early Cinema Audiences / Jennifer Peterson -- Motion Picture Color and Pathé-Frères: The Aesthetic Consequences of Industrialization / Charles O'Brien -- Early Cinema Presentations. …”
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The image in early cinema : form and material

Table of Contents: “…22 The Lantern Image between Stage and Screen / Artemis WillisPart IV: Discourses; 23 Pictorialism and the Picture: Art, Photography, and the "Doctrine of Taste" in the Discourse on Transitional-Era Quality Films / Tom Paulus; 24 Boredom and Visions in Vachel Lindsay's Film Theory / Ryan Pierson; 25 Falling Desperately in Love with the Image on Screen: "The Flictoflicker Girl" (1913) and Cinematic Structures of Fascination / Denis Condon; 26 An "Advertising Punch" in Every Frame: Image-Making in Early Advertising Films / Martin L. …”
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A Companion to Luis Buñuel by Stone, Rob

Table of Contents: “…Surreal souls: Un chien andalou and early French film theory / Sarah Cooper -- Fixed-explosive: Buñuel's surrealist time-image / Ramona Fotiade -- L'Age d'or / Agustin Sanchez Vidal -- Buñuel entomographer / Tom Conley -- The forgotten one. …”
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Film, Lacan and the subject of religion : a psychoanalytic approach to religious film analysis by Nolan, Steve

Table of Contents: “…Part three. What can film theory offer liturgy? -- Introduction to Part three -- Cinematic identification : suture and narrative space -- Cinematic perspective and narrative space -- Jean-Pierre Oudart and Stephen Heath : suturing the subject in cinematic discourse -- Slavoj Žižek : when suture fails -- Critique of the subject sutured in cinematic discourse -- Suturing suture : joining the theory together -- Cinematic impression of reality as unconscious effect -- Symbolic reality, imaginary reality and the real of the subject's truth -- Imagos and the representational nature of the complex -- Anamnesis : the subject's participation in the impression of reality -- Mapping imaginary reality to cinema's impression of reality -- Cinematic discourse and Lacan's linguistic theory of dreams -- The (overdetermined) 'thing' : 'dumb reality' and (forbidden) objet petit a -- Lacan's linguistic theory of dreams -- The signifier as representative not significant -- The repeated real, the real as missed encounter -- Mapping unconscious desire to cinematic discourse -- Suturing identity with a cinematic other, suturing subjectivity -- Identification with represented desire : a 'genetic theory of the ego' -- Libidinal investment, narcissistic identification : 'dialectic of identification' -- The confusion of identity : jealousy, paranoiac knowledge and transitivism -- Procuring subjectivity : circulating the 'rim' and superimposing the lack -- Procuring subjectivity : the double operation of the 'rim' -- Representation and the fading of the subject -- Procuring subjectivity : the superimposition of the two lacks -- Modes of subject identification : the ideal-I and the ego-ideal -- Symmetrical identifications : imaginary projection and symbolic introjection -- Mapping suture to identification with a cinematic other -- Suturing religious identity in the sacramental narrative -- Identification with the priest as a liturgical representation -- Constructing the priest as a liturgical representation -- Priestly representation (i) : a fiction sustained by erotic attraction -- The mission (1986) -- Priestly representation (ii) : a fiction sustained by negation/disavowal -- Father John McNeill -- The worshipper's solipsistic identification with priestly representation -- Joining the narrative and participating in its 'reality' -- Signifying for : the reinscription of desire into the sacramental narrative -- The exorcist (1973) -- On the waterfront (1954) -- The fugitive (1947) -- The worshipper's participation as a subject of episcopal/ecclesial 'reality' -- By way of analysis -- Batman begins (Christopher Nolan) -- Bewitched (Nora Ephron) -- Charlie and the chocolate factory (Tim Burton) -- Conclusion : a third task -- moving beyond the 'so what!'.…”
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Allegorical images : tableau, time and gesture in the cinema of Werner Schroeter. by Langford, Michelle

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Cinema and spectatorship by Mayne, Judith

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The Real of Reality by Reeh-Peters, Christine

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Theorizing film through contemporary art : expanding cinema

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Handsome heroes & vile villains : men in Disney's feature animation by Davis, Amy M. (Amy Michele)

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Manhood in Hollywood from Bush to Bush by Greven, David

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Handsome heroes & vile villains : men in Disney's feature animation by Davis, Amy M. (Amy Michele)

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Handsome heroes & vile villains : men in Disney's feature animation by Davis, Amy M. (Amy Michele)

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A short guide to writing about film by Corrigan, Timothy, 1951-

Zones of anxiety : movement, Musidora, and the crime serials of Louis Feuillade by Callahan, Vicki

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Hitchcock : past and future

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Japanese Documentary Film : the Meiji Era through Hiroshima. by Nornes, Ab Mark

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Cinematic Geopolitics. by Shapiro, Michael J.

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Situating the Feminist Gaze and Spectatorship in Postwar Cinema. by Block, Marcelline

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Japanese Documentary Film : the Meiji Era through Hiroshima. by Nornes, Ab Mark

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Trends in Nollywood : a study of selected genres by Ayakoroma, Foubiri

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Film Hieroglyphs. by Conley, Tom

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Lessen van Hitchcock, herziene editie : Een inleiding in mediatheorie. by Pisters, Patricia

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Lesbian studies : setting an agenda by Wilton, Tamsin

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Film Hieroglyphs. by Conley, Tom

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Feminisms : diversity, difference and multiplicity in contemporary film cultures

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Unsettling sights : the fourth world on film by Columpar, Corinn, 1970-

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