Contemporary Film Theory

This judicious selection of key works by Stephen Heath, Fredrick Jameson, Laura Mulvey, Mary Ann Doanne and others, represents some of the most important contemporary writing about film.

List of contents

General Editors' Preface. Acknowledgements. Part 1 Introduction Classic film theory; semiotics; politics and ideology; politics and subjectivity; politics and gender Part 2 Vision and phantasy Fetishism, Sigmund Freud; the mirror stage, Jacques Lacan. Ideology and subjectivity: cinema, ideology, criticism, Louis Comolli and Jean Narboni; realism and the cinema - notes on some Brechtian theses, Colin MacCabe; class and allegory in contemporary mass culture - "Dog Day Afternoon" as a political film, Fredric Jameson. Part 3 Gender and the gaze Visual pleasure and narrative cinema, Laura Mulvey; afterthoughts on "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema"; double indemnity, Claire Johnston; from "Fantasia", Liz Cowie; from "The Desire to Desire", Mary Ann Doane; from "Casablanca" to "Pretty Woman" - the politics of romance, Rob Lapsley and MichaelWestlake.

About the author

Easthope, Antony

Summary

This judicious selection of key works by Stephen Heath, Fredrick Jameson, Laura Mulvey, Mary Ann Doanne and others, represents some of the most important contemporary writing about film.

Product details

• Authors: Antony Easthope, Easthope Antony
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.02.2017
• EAN: 9781138167148
• ISBN: 978-1-138-16714-8
• No. of pages: 228
• Series: Longman Critical Readers
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism