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Film Theory - An Introduction

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Informationen zum Autor Robert Stam is Professor in the Cinema Studies Department at New York University. His many books include Film Theory: An Introduction (Blackwell Publishers, 1999), Tropical Multiculturalism: A Comparative History of Race in Brazilian Cinema and Culture (1997), Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media with Ella Shohat (1994), which won the Katherine Singer Kovocs 'Best Film Book Award'; and Subversive Pleasures: Bakhtin, Cultural Criticism, and Film (1992). Klappentext This book is a lively and provoking introduction to film theory. It is suitable for students from any discipline but is particularly aimed at students studying film and literature as it examines issues common to both subjects such as realism, illusionism, narration, point of view, style, semiotics, psychoanalysis and multiculturalism. It also includes coverage of theorists common to both, Barthes, Lacan and Bakhtin among others. Robert Stam, renowned for his clarity of writing, will also include studies of cinema specialists providing readers with a depth of reference not generally available outside the field of film studies itself. Other material covered includes film adaptations of works of literature and analogies between literary and film criticism. Zusammenfassung This work is an introduction to film theory! suitable for students from any discipline but particularly aimed at those studying film and literature as it examines issues common to both subjects such as realism! illusionism! narration! style and semiotics and also includes theorists common to both.

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Preface. Introduction.
1. The Antecedents of Film Theory.
2. Russian Formalism.
3. The Question of Film Language.
4. The Presence of Brecht.
5. The Poststructuralist Mutation.
6. The Rise of Cultural Studies.
7. The Coming Out of Queer Theory.
8. Third World Cinema Revisited.
9. The Politics of Postmodernism.
10. Post Cinema: Digital Theory and the New Media.
Index.


About the author










Robert Stam is Professor in the Cinema Studies Department at New York University. His many books include Film Theory: An Introduction (Blackwell Publishers, 1999), Tropical Multiculturalism: A Comparative History of Race in Brazilian Cinema and Culture (1997), Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media with Ella Shohat (1994), which won the Katherine Singer Kovocs 'Best Film Book Award'; and Subversive Pleasures: Bakhtin, Cultural Criticism, and Film (1992).

Product details

Authors Stam, R Stam, Robert Stam, Robert (New York University) Stam, Robert Miller Stam
Assisted by Toby Miller (Editor), Robert Stam (Editor)
Publisher Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 16.12.1999
 
EAN 9780631206545
ISBN 978-0-631-20654-5
No. of pages 400
Dimensions 154 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
Subjects Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs
Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet

PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism

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