Film Theory
Douban
An Introduction
Robert Stam
overview
Providing a collection of some of the most provocative and influential writings of film theory in the past thirty years, this anthology aims to provide a polylogue among theorists, deprovincializing the subject. Film Theory multiplies the perspectives and positions, the situations and locations, from which film theory is spoken.
contents
The Beginnings 18
The Essence of Cinema 33
Russian Formalism and the Bakhtin School 47
The Frankfurt School 64
The Cult of the Auteur 83
The Advent of Structuralism 102
The Question of Film Language 107
Interrogating Authorship and Genre 123
The Classic Realist Text 140
The Search for Alternative Aesthetics 153
The Feminist Intervention 169
Textual Analysis 185From Text to Intertext 201
The Rise of Cultural Studies 223
Semiotics Revisited 248
The Coming Out of Queer Theory 262
Third Cinema Revisited 281
The Poetics and Politics of Postmodernism 298
Digital Theory and the New Media 314
The Pluralization of Film Theory 327
Select Bibliography 341
Index 369
