| Description |
xviii, 862 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
The author -- Film language/specificity -- The image and technology -- Text and intertext -- The question of realism -- Alternative aesthetics -- The historical spectator/audience -- Apparatus theory -- The nature of the gaze -- Class and the culture industries -- Stars and performance -- Permutations of difference -- The politics of postmodernism |
| Summary |
This anthology aims to offer a collection of provocative and influential writings on film theory. Rather than look at film theory in terms of schools and allegiances, it investigates questions and problematics such as what is the cinema, what is realism and what does the spectator want? |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Philosophy.
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Motion pictures.
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| Author |
Miller, Toby, 1958-
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Stam, Robert, 1941-
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| LC no. |
99019390 |
| ISBN |
0631206256 (hbk.) |
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0631206264 |
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9780631206262 (paperback) |
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