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Film Theory Reader: Debates & Arguments book cover

1st Edition

Film Theory Reader: Debates & Arguments

Edited By Marc Furstenau Copyright 2010
320 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge

"An excellent collection of provocative and compelling debates, expertly and elegantly arranged. Essays new and old form a dynamic and accessible portrait of ideas foundational to contemporary thinking about film. This book is sure to inspire." Haidee Wasson, Concordia University, Montreal "Marc Furstenau retraces the most important issues in film theory, and makes them interact with the... Read more
Selected Contents: Acknowledgements.  Introduction  1. Film Theory: A History of Debates Marc Furstenau.  I. The Future of Film Theory: A Debate  2. An Elegy for Theory D.N. Rodowick  3. Theory, Philosophy, and Film Studies Malcolm Turvey.  II. Arguments with Early Film Theory  4. The Psychology of the Photoplay Hugo Münsterberg  5. Film/Mind Analogies: The Case of Hugo Münsterberg Noël Carroll  6. Visible Man, or the Culture of Film Béla Bálazs  7. Bálazs: Realist or Modernist? Malcolm Turvey  8. The Ontology of the Photographic Image André Bazin  9. The Evolution of the Language of Cinema André Bazin  10. Rethinking Bazin: Ontology and Realist Aesthetics Daniel Morgan.  III. Classic Debates  11. The Cinema: Language or Language System? Christian Metz  12. The Semiology of the Cinema Peter Wollen  13. Recapitulation of Images and Signs Gilles Deleuze  14. Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema Laura Mulvey  15. Is the Gaze Male? E. Ann Kaplan  16. Afterthoughts on ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’ Laura Mulvey  17. The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators bell hooks.  IV. Recent Arguments  18. Digital Cinema and the History of a Moving Image Lev Manovich  19. Moving Away from the Index: Cinema and the Impression of Reality Tom Gunning  20. The End of Cinema: Multimedia and Technological Change Anne Friedberg  21. Digital Cinema: A False Revolution John Belton

Biography

Marc Furstenau is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Carleton University, Canada. Recent publications include (ed. with Bruce Bennett and Adrian Mackenzie) Cinema and Technology: Cultures, Theories, Practices (2008), and he has also published on the topics of cinema and semiotics, film theory, the philosophical cinema of Terrence Malick and the photographic theory of Susan Sontag. His current research interests include film theory and film history; new digital media and documentary cinema.

"An excellent collection of provocative and compelling debates, expertly and elegantly arranged. Essays new and old form a dynamic and accessible portrait of ideas foundational to contemporary thinking about film. This book is sure to inspire."

Haidee Wasson, Concordia University, Montreal

"Marc Furstenau retraces the most important issues in film theory, and makes them interact with the current debate on cinema and post-cinema. A historical legacy becomes a living source - and the site of a passionate debate."

Francesco Casetti, Catholic University of Milan and Yale University.

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