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READINGS OF QUEER EYE FOR THE STRAIGHT GUY; PART IV: EXTERNAL PRACTICES-MIXED MEDIA; THE THEORY OF FILM PRACTICE; [7 OUTDATED OBJECTS WHICH DANGLE]; MODALITIES OF READING; POLISH POETS ON THEORY AND THEIR POETIC PRACTICE; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX.…”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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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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New Constructions in Cellular Automata. by Griffeath, David

Table of Contents: “…Contents; Preface; Self-Organized Construction in Sparse Random Arrays of Conway's Game of Life; Synthesis of Complex Life Objects from Gliders; A Two-Dimensional Cellular Automaton Crystal with Irrational Density; Still Life Theory; Replicators and Larger-than-Life Examples; Growth Phenomena in Cellular Automata; Constructive Molecular Dynamics Lattice Gases: Three-Dimensional Molecular Self-Assembly; Simulating Digital Logic with the Reversible Aggregation Model of Crystal Growth; Universal Cellular Automata Based on the Collisions of Soft Spheres.…”
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Modernism and the ordinary by Olson, Liesl

Table of Contents: “…The paradox of the ordinary -- Everyday life theory -- The nineteenth century and the everyday -- Ordinary life and modern war -- James Joyce and the realism of the ordinary. …”
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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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Attention equals life : the pursuit of the everyday in contemporary poetry and culture by Epstein, Andrew, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the poetics of everyday life since 1945 -- The crisis of attention, everyday life theory, and contemporary poetry -- "Each day so different, yet still alike": James Schuyler and the elusive everyday -- "Tthe tiny invites attention": A.R. …”
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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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