What Is Film Theory? by Rushton, Richard

Table of Contents: “…Front cover; Half title page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Introduction: What is film theory?; 1 Structuralism and semiotics: The foundations of contemporary film theory; 2 Apparatus theory: Jean-Louis Baudry and Christian Metz; 3 Screen theory: Colin MacCabe and Stephen Heath; 4 Feminism and film: Visual pleasure and identificatory practices; 5 Cinemas of the other: Postcolonialism, race and queer theory; 6 Philosophers and film: Gilles Deleuze and Stanley Cavell; 7 Film as art: Historical poetics and neoformalism.…”
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Feminist Film Theory by Thornham, Sue

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Film, theory and philosophy : the key thinkers /

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Film, Theory and Philosophy : the Key Thinkers. by Colman, Felicity

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European film theory /

Table of Contents: “…European film theory : from crypto-nationalism to trans-nationalism / Paul Coates -- The aesthetics of race in European film theory / Tobias Nagl -- The disunity of film theory and the disunity of aesthetics / Casey Haskins -- Real location, fantasy space, performative place : double occupancy and mutual interference in European cinema / Thomas Elsaesser -- Film as philosophy : a mission impossible? …”
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Concepts in Film Theory. by Andrew, Dudley, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Contents; 1 The State of Film Theory; 2 Perception; 3 Representation; 4 Signification; 5 Narrative Structure; 6 Adaptation; 7 Valuation (of Genres and Auteurs); 8 Identification; 9 Figuration; 10 Interpretation; Notes; Appendix: Classified Bibliography; Index.…”
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A Companion to film theory /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Toby Miller -- Authorship / James Naremore -- Genre / Sarah Berry -- Enunciation and narration / André Gaudreault and François Jost -- Film editing / Lucy Fischer -- Film semiotics / Warren Buckland -- Cognitivism / Gregory Currie -- Psychoanalytic film theory / Richard Allen -- Spectatorship and subjectivity / E. …”
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Fredric Jameson and film theory : Marxism, allegory, and geopolitics in world cinema /

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Lukácsian film theory and cinema : a study of Georg Lukács' writing on film 1913-1971. by Aitken, Ian

Table of Contents: “…Lukácsâ#x80;#x99; literary â#x80;#x98;typologyâ#x80;#x99;; 3 Lukácsâ#x80;#x99; late aesthetic and film theory: The Specificity of the Aesthetic/Die Eigenart des Ã#x84;sthetischen.…”
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Australian film theory and criticism. Volume 1, Critical positions by King, Noel

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Film theory and contemporary Hollywood movies /

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Eric Rohmer's film theory (1948-1953) : from 'école Scherer' to 'politique des auteurs' / by Grosoli, Marco

“…Film theory in media history.…”
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The reality of Film : Theories of Filmic Reality. by Rushton, Richard

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Screen/play : Derrida and film theory / by Brunette, Peter, Wills, David, 1953-

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The reality of Film : Theories of Filmic Reality. by Rushton, Richard

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Cinematic Vitalism : Film Theory and the Question of Life. by Pollmann, Inga

Table of Contents: “…Open Bodies, Open Stories; Evolution, Narration, and Spectatorship in Post-war Film Theory; The Axolotl and Cinema: Bazin, Bergson, and Evolution; Cinema's Milieu; Life and the Temporalities of Film and Painting; Post-Apocalyptic Life: Kracauer's Theory of Film; Conclusion; Vital Media; Bibliography; Index of Films; Index of Names; Index of Subjects.…”
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The real gaze : film theory after Lacan / by McGowan, Todd

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Drive in cinema : essays on film, theory and politics / by Léger, Marc James

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Cinema approaching reality : locating chinese film theory / by Fan, Victor

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Approaching reality: Chinese ontology and the potentiality of time -- Cinema of thought: directed consciousness in Chinese Marxist film theory -- Soft film theory: life in all its presence and concreteness -- Fey Mou: the presence of an absence -- Cinema of ideation, cinema of play: the early Cantonese sound film -- Conclusion.…”
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The Difficulty of Difference : Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference and Film Theory. by Rodowick, D. N.

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The film paintings of David Lynch : challenging film theory / by Mactaggart, Allister

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Cinematic howling : women's films, women's film theories / by Cheu, Hoi F. (Hoi Fung), 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Feminist Film Theory and the Postfeminist Era -- 2 Howling for Multitudes -- 3 The Female Authorial Voice -- 4 Beyond Freud and Lacan -- 5 Cathartic Meta-narrative -- 6 Diasporic Imagination and Transcultural Identity -- 7 Representing Representation -- 8 From Text to Context -- 9 Filling the Theory Vacuum -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z…”
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The promise of cinema : German film theory, 1907--1933 /

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Opening Bazin : postwar film theory and its afterlife /

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Conversations with Christian Metz : selected interviews on film theory (1970-1991) /

Table of Contents: “…Interview with Christian Metz / Daniel Percheron and Marc Vernet -- 5. Round Table on Film Theory / Christian Metz, Michel Fano, Jean Paul Simon,1 and Noël Simsolo -- 6. …”
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Béla Balázs : early film theory : Visible man and the spirit of film / by Balázs, Béla, 1884-1949

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Mysteries of cinema : reflections on film theory, history and culture 1982-2016 / by Martin, Adrian, 1959-

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Deleuze and film music : building a methodological bridge between film theory and music / by Redner, Gregg

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Plotinus and the moving image by Botz-Bornstein, Thorsten

Table of Contents: “…Moving Image and Conversion: A Neoplatonic Film Theory /…”
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Deep mediations : thinking space in cinema and digital cultures

Table of Contents: “…Depths of the moving image : perception, spectatorship, and film theory --…”
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The ancient world in silent cinema

Table of Contents: “…'Hieroglyphics in motion': representing ancient Egypt and the Middle East in film theory and criticism of the silent period /…”
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Jean Epstein : Critical Essays and New Translations. by Keller, Sarah

“…Film theory in media history.…”
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Technology and Film Scholarship : Experience, Study, Theory. by Hidalgo, Santiago

“…Film theory in media history.…”
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1968 and global cinema

Table of Contents: “…The Rhetoric of Parapraxis: The 1967 Riots and Hong Kong Film Theory /…”
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Postcolonial theory and Avatar by Basu Thakur, Gautam

“…Film theory in practice…”
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Happiness by design : modernism and media in the Eames era by Nieland, Justus

Table of Contents: “…Happy furniture: on the media environments of the Eames chair -- The scale is the world: designer pedagogy and expanded cinema -- Management cinema: film, communication, and postwar world-making in Aspen -- Memories of overdevelopment: the vision conferences and the fate of environmental design -- Designer film theory: techniques of happiness -- Designer film theory, II: media pedagogy and modernist information aesthetics -- Coda: the Norton chair, circa 1970: trilling or Eames?.…”
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Feminine look : sexuation, spectatorship, subversion by Friedlander, Jennifer

Table of Contents: “…Sensation and the studium -- Framing the child in Sally Mann's photographs -- Conclusion: Film theory for post-theory.…”
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Feminism and Film by Humm, Maggie

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- PART ONE -- 1 Feminist Theory, Aesthetics and Film Theory: Mulvey, Kuhn, Kaplan and hooks -- 2 Sight and Sound: Pornography, The Gaze, Klute and Variety -- 3 Cronenberg's Films and Feminist Theories of Mothering -- 4 Author/Auteur: Feminist Literary Thoery and Feminist Film -- PART TWO -- 5 Black Film Theory, Black Feminisms: Daughter of the Dust -- 6 Postmodernism and Orlando -- 7 Practising Feminist Theory -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index…”
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Doubting vision : film and the revelationist tradition by Turvey, Malcolm, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…The revelationist tradition: exegesis -- The revelationist tradition: critique -- Revelationism and contemporary film theory -- The lure of visual skepticism.…”
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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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