Theorizing colonial cinema : reframing production, circulation, and consumption of film in Asia

Table of Contents: “…On romanization, naming, and translation -- Time, race, and the asynchronous in the colonial documentaries of Malaya / Nadine Chan -- Facing malcontent colonial Korean comrades : a typology of colonial cinema in Asia's socialist alliances / Moonim Baek -- Colonial-era film theory, spectatorship, and the problem of internalization / Aaron Gerow -- Chinese cinema's other : wrangling over "China-humiliating" films (ruHua pian) / Yiman Wang -- World export : melodramas of colonial conquest / Jane M. …”
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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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Farocki/Godard : film as theory by Pantenburg, Volker, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Le film qui pense -- Image, Theory, Practice -- Film as a "Concrete Medium" -- Film Theories / Film as Theory -- Difference and Theory -- Montage and Cinematic Thinking -- 2. …”
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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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Postanalytic and metacontinental : crossing philosophical divides

Table of Contents: “…Smith -- Wittgenstein as trans-analytic-continental philosopher / Dale Jacquette -- Disenfranchising film on the analytic-cognitivist turn in film theory / Robert Sinnerbrink -- Part IV. Metaphysics and mathematics -- The possibility of German idealism after analytic philosophy : McDowell, Brandom and beyond / Paul Redding -- On the problem of selection in events for Deleuze and Davidson / James Williams -- Virtual platonisms : Lautman and Gödel / Pierre Cassou-Nogus.…”
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World cinemas, transnational perspectives

Table of Contents: “…Notes on transnational film theory: decentered subjectivity, decentered capitalism / Kathleen Newman -- On the plurality of cinematic transnationalism / Mette Hjort -- Tracking "global media" in the outposts of globalization / Bhaskar Sarkar -- Time zones and jetlag: the flows and phases of world cinema / Dudley Andrew -- Vector, flow, zone: towards a history of cinematic translation / Nataša Ďurovičová -- Cinema as transnational exchange. …”
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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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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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The Time of the City : Politics, Philosophy and Genre. by Shapiro, Michael J.

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Movie blockbusters

Table of Contents: “…Reflections on the blockbuster experience in Contact (1997) / Peter Krämer -- Blockbusting sound : the case of The fugitive / Gianluca Sergi -- Circulations of taste : Titanic, the Oscars, and the middlebrow / Gillian Roberts -- Sex, controversy, box-office : from blockbuster to bonkbuster / Rebecca Feasey -- Star Wars in fandom, film theory, and the museum : the cultural status of the cult blockbuster / Matt Hills -- The best place to see a film : the blockbuster, the multiplex, and the contexts of consumption / Mark Jancovich and Lucy Faire -- Neither one thing nor the other : blockbusters at film festivals / Julian Stringer -- "What's big about the big film?" …”
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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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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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The shattering of the self : violence, subjectivity, and early modern texts by Marshall, Cynthia

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The shattering of the self : violence, subjectivity, and early modern texts by Marshall, Cynthia

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The life of the author by Kozloff, Sarah

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Hyper-narrative interactive cinema : problems and solutions by Ben-Shaul, Nitzan S.

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The aesthetics and politics of cinematic pedestrianism : walking in films by Özgen, Aslı

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The French road movie : space, mobility, identity by Archer, Neil, 1971-

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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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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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The past's threshold : essays on photography by Kracauer, Siegfried, 1889-1966

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Special affects : cinema, animation and the translation of consumer culture by Jenkins, Eric S.

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Using film as a source by Barber, Sian

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Screening the male : exploring masculinities in Hollywood cinema

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Time Travel : the Popular Philosophy of Narrative. by Wittenberg, David

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