How a Film Theory Got Lost and Other Mysteries in Cultural Studies

Robert B. Ray, Director of Film and Media Studies and Professor of English at the University of Florida, is author of A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema 1930-1980 and The Avant-Garde Finds Andy Hardy. He is also a member of The Vulgar Boatmen, whose records include You and Your Sister, Please Panic, and Opposite Sex.

List of contents

Contents

Foreword by James Naremore

1. Impressionism, Surrealism, and Film Theory: Path Dependence, or How a Tradition in Film Theory Gets Lost

2. The Bordwell Regime and the Stakes of Knowledge

3. Snapshots: The Beginnings of Photography

4. Tracking

5. How to Start and Avant-Garde

6. How to Teach Cultural Studies

7. The Best Way to Understand Postmodernism

8. The Mystery of Edward Hopper

9. Film and Literature

Conclusion

Notes

Index

About the author

Robert B. Ray

Summary

In the 1920s, when film criticism was as new as the cinema itself, a particular way of thinking about the movies developed in Paris. This collection of essays discusses this mystery and others like it: Why did photography and the detective story originate at exactly the same time?

Product details

• Authors: Robert B Ray, Robert B. Ray, Ray Robert B
• Assisted by: Foreword by James Naremore Robert B Ray (Editor)
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2001
• EAN: 9780253214386
• ISBN: 978-0-253-21438-6
• No. of pages: 182
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 273 g
• Series: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries