The future of an illusion : film, feminism, and psychoanalysis by Penley, Constance, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments; Preface; Feminism and the Avant-Garde; Feminism and Film Theory; Feminism and Femininity in Godard; Sexual Difference in Popular Culture; Feminism and Pedagogy; Notes; Index…”
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Jack the Ripper in film and culture : top hat, Gladstone bag and fog by Smith, Clare

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Historical and cultural context -- Psychoanalysis and the Whitechapel murders on film -- Feminist film theory -- Jack the Ripper -- The detective -- The victims -- Whitechapel -- Conclusion -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Post-war industrial media culture in Sweden, 1945-1960 : new faces, new values by Björkin, Mats

Table of Contents: “…The housewife, film, television, and the quiz show nerd -- Film and Swedish industry in the world -- Intermission : a substitute for an industrial film theory -- Meetings for trading ideas and goods, new and old -- The new face.…”
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The major realist film theorists : a critical anthology

Table of Contents: “…Displaced vision : the politics of realism in Kracauer and Kluge -- The rhetoric of madness in realist film theory -- Phenomenology, theology and 'physical reality' : the film theory realism of Siegfried Kracauer -- 'Montage, my fine care' : realism, surrealism and postmodernism after Bazin -- Multiple indexicality and multiple realism in Andre Bazin -- André Bazin, or the ambiguity of reality -- Realism is to think historically : overlapping elements in Lukácsian and Brechtian theories of realism -- The moving-image redemption of orality and Lukács's early writing on the cinema -- The 'naturalist' treatment in The specificity of the aesthetics (Georg Lukács, 1963) and One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich (Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 1962; Caspar Wrede, 1970) -- The documentary version of film history -- The Grierson testament, 1969-71 -- John Grierson : from the poster movement to the international state.…”
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The cinematic body by Shaviro, Steven

Table of Contents: “…Film theory and visual fascination -- Contagious allegories: George Romero -- Comedies of abjection: Jerry Lewis -- Bodies of fear: David Croneberg -- Masculinity, spectacle, and the body of Querelle -- Warhol's bodies -- A note on Bresson.…”
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The cinematic body by Shaviro, Steven

Table of Contents: “…Film theory and visual fascination -- Contagious allegories: George Romero -- Comedies of abjection: Jerry Lewis -- Bodies of fear: David Croneberg -- Masculinity, spectacle, and the body of Querelle -- Warhol's bodies -- A note on Bresson.…”
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Critical cinema : beyond the theory of practice

Table of Contents: “…Sublime Acts: The Fate of Resistance Between Film Theory and Practice; 6. Ranciere and the Persistence of Film Theory; 7. …”
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The cognitive semiotics of film by Buckland, Warren

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CHAPTER ONE The Cognitive Turn in Film Theory; CHAPTER TWO The Body on Screen and in Frame; CHAPTER THREE Not What Is Seen through the Window but the Window Itself; CHAPTER FOUR The Institutional Context; CHAPTER FIVE All in the Mind?…”
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Reservation reelism : redfacing, visual sovereignty, and representations of Native Americans in film by Raheja, Michelle H.

Table of Contents: “…Toward a genealogy of Indigenous film theory : reading Hollywood Indians -- Ideologies of (in)visibility : redfacing, gender, and moving images -- Tears and trash : economies of redfacing and the ghostly Indian -- Prophesizing on the virtual reservation : Imprint and It starts with a whisper -- Visual sovereignty, Indigenous revisions of ethnography, and Atanarjuat (The fast runner) -- Epilogue.…”
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The curious humanist : Siegfried Kracauer in America by Von Moltke, Johannes, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Siegfried Kracauer and the politics of film theory -- Metropolitan contact zones: Kracauer in New York -- Totalitarian propaganda -- Nazi cinema -- Freedom from fear? …”
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Left of Hollywood : cinema, modernism, and the emergence of U.S. radical film culture by Robé, Chris, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…debates and emergent Popular Front U.S. film theory and criticism -- Screening race : the antilynching film, the black press, and U.S. …”
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Film as philosophy

Table of Contents: “…Thinking as Feast: Raymonde Carasco; 12. Rancière's Film Theory as Deviation; 13. Movie- Made Philosophy; 14. …”
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This Perversion Called Love : Reading Tanizaki, Feminist Theory, and Freud. by Long, Margherita

Table of Contents: “…The Sadism of the Scopic Regime: Portrait of Shunkin, Feminist Film Theory, and Tanizaki's Cinema Essays.…”
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Surrealism and cinema by Richardson, Michael, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Surrealist film theory and practice -- 1. Surrealism and popular culture -- 2. …”
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Postfeminisms : feminism, cultural theory, and cultural forms by Brooks, Ann, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…. -- Postfeminism and Popular Culture: Representations and Resistance -- Postfeminist Variations Within Media and Film Theory -- Postfeminisms and Cultural Space: Sexuality, Subjectivity and Identity.…”
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Special effects and German silent film : techno-romantic cinema by Loew, Katharina

Table of Contents: “…Imagining Technological Art: Early German Film Theory -- 2. Modern Magicians: Guido Seeber and Eugen Schüfftan -- 3. …”
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An annotated bibliography for Taiwan film studies

Table of Contents: “…Specific Film Genres; 4. Film Reviews; 5. Film Theory and Technique; 6. Interdisciplinary Studies; 7. …”
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Post-theory : reconstructing film studies

Table of Contents: “…Contemporary film studies and the vicissitudes of grand theory / David Bordwell -- Prospects for film theory : a personal assessment / Noël Carroll -- Psychoanalytic film theory and the problem of the missing spectator / Stephen Prince -- Convention, construction, and cinematic vision / David Bordwell -- Is a cognitive approach to the avant-garde cinema perverse? …”
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Hugo Munsterberg on Film: The Photoplay: A Psychological Study and Other Writings. by Münsterberg, Hugo

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Editor's Introduction; S(t)imulation of Mind: The Film Theory of Hugo Munsterberg; The Photoplay: A Psychological Study; Introduction; I The Outer Development of the Moving Pictures; 2 The Inner Development of the Moving Pictures; Part I: The Psychology of the Photoplay; 3 Depth and Movement; 4 Attention; 5 Memory and Imagination; 6 Emotions; Part II: The Aesthetics of the Photoplay; 7 The Purpose of Art; 8 The Means of the Various Arts; 9 The Means of the Photoplay; 10 The Demands or the Photoplay; 11 The function of the Photoplay.…”
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Spreading misandry : the teaching of contempt for men in popular culture by Nathanson, Paul, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: misandry in popular culture -- Laughing at men: the last of Vaudeville -- Looking down on men: separate but unequal -- Bypassing men: women alone together -- Blaming men: a history of their own -- Dehumanizing men: from bad boys to beasts -- Demonizing men: the devil is a man -- Making the world safe for ideology: the roots of misandry -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: quasi-misandric movies -- Appendix 2: the misandric week on television -- Appendix 3: misandric movie genres -- Appendix 4: populist or elitist: talk shows in the context of democracy -- Appendix 5: deconstructionists and Jacques Derrida, founding hero -- Appendix 6: film theory and ideological feminism -- Appendix 7: into the twenty-first century.…”
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Philosophizing Brecht : critical readings on art, consciousness, social theory and performance by Roessler, Norman, Squiers, Anthony

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Philosophizing Brecht: Critical Readings on Art, Consciousness, Social Theory and Performance; Copyright; Contents; Notes on Contributors; 1 Philosophizing Brecht: An Introduction for Dark Times; 2 The Performance of Racialized Bodies and Brecht's Operatic Anthropology; 3 Consciousness in Brechtian Acting: Defamiliarizing the Self; 4 Brecht and Film Theory: How Brecht's Theory and Method Impacted the Development of ""Screen Theory; 5 Philosophizing with Brecht and Günther Anders: What Is Wrong with Moralism?…”
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Spreading misandry : the teaching of contempt for men in popular culture by Nathanson, Paul, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: misandry in popular culture -- Laughing at men: the last of Vaudeville -- Looking down on men: separate but unequal -- Bypassing men: women alone together -- Blaming men: a history of their own -- Dehumanizing men: from bad boys to beasts -- Demonizing men: the devil is a man -- Making the world safe for ideology: the roots of misandry -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: quasi-misandric movies -- Appendix 2: the misandric week on television -- Appendix 3: misandric movie genres -- Appendix 4: populist or elitist: talk shows in the context of democracy -- Appendix 5: deconstructionists and Jacques Derrida, founding hero -- Appendix 6: film theory and ideological feminism -- Appendix 7: into the twenty-first century.…”
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The Terministic Screen : Rhetorical Perspectives on Film. by Blakesley, David

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Rhetoric of Film and Film Studies by David Blakesley; Part One: Perspectives on Film and Film Theory as Rhetoric; 1. Mapping the Other: The English Patient, Colonial Rhetoric, and Cinematic Representation by Alan Nadel; 2. …”
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Public enemies, public heroes : screening the gangster from Little Caesar to Touch of Evil by Munby, Jonathan

Table of Contents: “….: Beyond the ghetto/Beyond the majors in the postwar gangster film -- Screening crime the liberal consensus way: Postwar transformations in the Production Code -- The "Un-American" film art: Robert Siodmak, Fritz Lang, and the political significance of Film Noir's German connection -- From gangster to gangsta: Against a certain tendency of film theory and history.…”
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Engaging the moving image by Carroll, Noël, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…-- TV and film : a philosophical perspective -- Kracauer's Theory of film -- Cinematic nation building : Eisenstein's The old and the new -- The professional western : South of the border -- Moving and moving : from minimalism to lives of performers -- Prospects for film theory : a personal assessment.…”
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Engaging the moving image by Carroll, Noël, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…-- TV and film : a philosophical perspective -- Kracauer's Theory of film -- Cinematic nation building : Eisenstein's The old and the new -- The professional western : South of the border -- Moving and moving : from minimalism to lives of performers -- Prospects for film theory : a personal assessment.…”
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The film handbook by De Valk, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Renaissance of (digital) film -- Developing mise-en-scene -- Directing the actor -- Cinematography: painting with motion -- Sound underpinning image -- Editing: temporality & structure -- Film theory in practice. Reading the screen -- Spectatorship and audience -- Contemporary cinema -- Eisenstein and Bazin: formalism & realism, two modes of practice -- Genre -- Guerrilla filmmaking: practice as subversion. …”
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Gilles Deleuze, Postcolonial Theory, and the Philosophy of Limit. by Bensmaïa, Réda

Table of Contents: “…FC; Half title; Suspensions: Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thought; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; Preface: Gilles Deleuze and How to Become a Stalker in Philosophy; 1 Postcolonial Haecceities: On Deleuze's Names; 2 The Subject of Art: Prolegomena to a Future Deleuzian Aesthetics; 3 Cinéplastique(s): Deleuze on Élie Faure and Film Theory; 4 On the "Spiritual Automaton," or Space and Time in Modern Cinema according to Gilles Deleuze; 5 The Singularity of the Event: Gilles Deleuze, Paul Virilio, François Jullien.…”
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Feminist film studies by Hollinger, Karen

Table of Contents: “…What is feminist film theory? -- Films in focus: Vertigo -- Women and genre: from the woman's film to chick flicks -- Films in focus: Stella Dallas and The devil wears Prada -- Women and avant-garde and documentary filmmaking -- Films in focus 1: Meshes of the afternoon -- Films in focus 2: Je, tu, il, elle -- Films in focus 3: Shut up and sing -- Lesbian film criticism -- Films in focus: Desert hearts -- Women in the adaptation and biopic -- Films in focus 1: Sense and sensibility -- Films in focus 2: Frida -- Feminist film studies and race -- Films in focus: Illusions -- Films in focus 2: Fire -- The woman auteur -- Films in focus: Margarethe von Trotta -- The actress -- Films in focus: Susan Sarandon and Thelma and Louise.…”
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Elegy for theory by Rodowick, David Norman

Table of Contents: “…The Rarity of Theory -- 9. On the History of Film Theory -- 10. Genres of Theory -- 11. Excursus: Ricciotto Canudo and the Aesthetic Discourse -- 12. …”
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Elegy for theory by Rodowick, David Norman

Table of Contents: “…The Rarity of Theory -- 9. On the History of Film Theory -- 10. Genres of Theory -- 11. Excursus: Ricciotto Canudo and the Aesthetic Discourse -- 12. …”
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Pier Paolo Pasolini : contemporary perspectives

Table of Contents: “…Mariniello -- A genial analytic mind : 'Film' and 'Cinema' in Pier Paolo Pasolini's film theory / D. Ward -- Manifesto for a new theatre / P.P. …”
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An introduction to Literary Studies by Klarer, Mario, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…; Genre, text type, and discourse; Primary and secondary sources; 2 Major genres in literary studies; Fiction; Poetry; Drama; Film; 3 Periods of literature; 4 Theoretical approaches to literature; Text-oriented approaches; Author-oriented approaches; Reader-oriented approaches; Context-oriented approaches; Literary critique or evaluation; Film theory; 5 Where and how to find secondary literature.…”
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Theory That Matters : What Practice After Theory. by Myk, Małgorzata

Table of Contents: “…AMERICAN LITERARY NONFICTION OF THE 1960s AND 70sSEXUALITY IN- AND OUTSIDE DISCOURSE; PART III: PRACTICES-FILM/MEDIA; DETERRITORIALIZING THEORY; FROM THE KITCHEN INTO THE BATHROOM; CAN PSYCHOANALYTIC FILM THEORY BE SAVED FOR FEMINISM?; CONTESTED READINGS OF QUEER EYE FOR THE STRAIGHT GUY; PART IV: EXTERNAL PRACTICES-MIXED MEDIA; THE THEORY OF FILM PRACTICE; [7 OUTDATED OBJECTS WHICH DANGLE]; MODALITIES OF READING; POLISH POETS ON THEORY AND THEIR POETIC PRACTICE; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX.…”
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On Michael Haneke

Table of Contents: “…Manon -- The Key to Voyeurism: Haneke's Adaptation of Jelinek's The Piano Teacher / Fatima Naqvi and Christophe Kone -- The Message and the Medium: Haneke's Film Theory and Digital Praxis / Mattias Frey -- Death, with Television / Meghan Sutherland -- Haneke's Early Work for Television / Bert Rebhandl -- Culture and Conflict. …”
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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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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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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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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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