Miller / Stam A Companion to Film Theory

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-99840-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 440 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies

This volume of specially commissioned work by experts in the fieldof film studies provides a comprehensive overview of the field. Itsinternational and interdisciplinary approach will have a broadappeal to those interested in this multifaceted subject.
* * Provides a major collection of specially commissioned work byexperts in the field of film studies.
* Represents material under a variety of headings, includingclass, race, gender, queer theory, nation, stars, ethnography,authorship, and spectatorship.
* Offers an international approach to the subject, includingcoverage of topics such as genre, image, sound, editing, cultureindustries, early cinema, classical Hollywood, and TV relations andtechnology.
* Includes concise chapter-by-chapter accounts of the backgroundand current approaches to each topic, followed by a prognosticationon the future.
* Considers cinema studies in relation to other forms ofknowledge, such as critical studies, anthropology, andliterature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Miller, Toby

Stam, Robert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Toby Miller.
2. Authorship: James Naremore.
3. Genre: Sarah Berry.
4. Enunciation and Narration: André Gaudreault andFrançois Jost.
5. Film Editing: Lucy Fischer.
6. Film Semiotics: Warren Buckland.
7. Cognitivism: Greg Currie.
8. Psychoanalysis: Richard Allen.
9. Spectatorship and Subjectivity: E. Deidre Pribram.
10. Laura Mulvey Meets Cathrine Tramell Meets the She-Man:Counter-History, Reclamation, and Incongruity in Lesbian, Gay, andQueer Film and Media Criticism: Julia Erhart.
11. Is There Class in this Text?: The Repression of Class inFilm and Cultural Studies : David James.
12. Culture Industries: Douglas Kellner.
13. The Political Economy of Film: Janet Wasko.
14. The Work of Theory in the Age of Digital Transformation:Henry Jenkins.
15. Cultural Exchange: Tom O'Regan.
16. Anthropology for the World: Mass Media: Faye Ginsburg.
17. Psycho's Bad Timing: The Sensual Obsessions of Film Theory:Toby Miller.
18. Historical Allegory: Ismail Xavier.
19. Every Picture Tells a Story: José Guadalupe Posada'sPhotocinematic Graphic Art: Charles Ramirez Berg.
20. On "Historical Poetics," Narrative, and Interpretation: IraBhaskar.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Toby Miller is Professor in the Cinema Studies Department atNew York University. He is the author or editor of a wide range ofwork in cultural studies, including A Companion to CulturalStudies (Ed. Blackwell Publishing, 2001), Technologies ofTruth (1998) and (with Alec McHoul) Popular Culture andEveryday Life (1998). He is also co-editor of the journalSocial Text and (with Robert Stam) co-editor of Film andTheory: An Anthology (Blackwell Publishing, 2000).
Robert Stam is Professor in the Cinema StudiesDepartment at New York University. His many books include FilmTheory: An Introduction (Blackwell Publishing, 1999);Tropical Multiculturalism: A Comparative History of Race inBrazilian Cinema and Culture (1997); UnthinkingEurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media, with Ella Shohat(1994), which won the Katherine Singer Kovocs "Best Film BookAward"; and Subversive Pleasures: Bakhtin, CulturalCriticism, and Film (1992). He is also co-editor (with TobyMiller) of Film and Theory: An Anthology (BlackwellPublishing, 2000).