Concepts in Film Theory
Title | Concepts in Film Theory PDF eBook |
Author | J. Dudley Andrew |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 254 |
Release | 1984-03-15 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0198020511 |
Concepts in Film Theory is a continuation of Dudley Andrew's classic, The Major Film Theories. In writing now about contemporary theory, Andrew focuses on the key concepts in film study -- perception, representation, signification, narrative structure, adaptation, evaluation, identification, figuration, and interpretation. Beginning with an introductory chapter on the current state of film theory, Andrew goes on to build an overall view of film, presenting his own ideas on each concept, and giving a sense of the interdependence of these concepts. Andrew provides lucid explanations of theories which involve perceptual psychology and structuralism; semiotics and psychoanalysis; hermeneutics and genre study. His clear approach to these often obscure theories enables students to acquire the background they need to enrich their understanding of film -- and of art.
Film Theory
Title | Film Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Simpson |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | 346 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780415259729 |
What Is Film Theory?
Title | What Is Film Theory? PDF eBook |
Author | Rushton, Richard |
Publisher | McGraw-Hill Education (UK) |
Total Pages | 219 |
Release | 2010-02-01 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0335234232 |
'What is Film Theory? is an introduction to the key elements of film theory. So, what is film theory as a subject? Film studies is divided in to key subjects and themes: there's film art which looks at the aesthetics of film; cinema studies which looks at institutions, films themeselves and the industry; film theory which looks at the concepts, philosophies and disciplines which underline film studies. As such, the book will look at subjects including semiotics and strucutalism, psychoanalysis, formalist film theory, cognitive approaches and neoformalism. In the light of the readers' reports it will also address more 'cultural' issues such as queer theory, ethnicity, postcolonialism and world cinema..
The Major Film Theories
Title | The Major Film Theories PDF eBook |
Author | J. Dudley Andrew |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 292 |
Release | 1976-04-15 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0199763488 |
Both a history of film theory and an introduction to the work of the most important writers in the field, Andrew's volume reveals the bases of thought of such major theorists as Munsterberg, Arnheim, Eisenstein, Balazs, Kracauer, Bazin, Mitry, and Metz.
Animating Film Theory
Title | Animating Film Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Karen Redrobe |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Total Pages | 396 |
Release | 2014-03-21 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0822376814 |
Animating Film Theory provides an enriched understanding of the relationship between two of the most unwieldy and unstable organizing concepts in cinema and media studies: animation and film theory. For the most part, animation has been excluded from the purview of film theory. The contributors to this collection consider the reasons for this marginalization while also bringing attention to key historical contributions across a wide range of animation practices, geographic and linguistic terrains, and historical periods. They delve deep into questions of how animation might best be understood, as well as how it relates to concepts such as the still, the moving image, the frame, animism, and utopia. The contributors take on the kinds of theoretical questions that have remained underexplored because, as Karen Beckman argues, scholars of cinema and media studies have allowed themselves to be constrained by too narrow a sense of what cinema is. This collection reanimates and expands film studies by taking the concept of animation seriously. Contributors. Karen Beckman, Suzanne Buchan, Scott Bukatman, Alan Cholodenko, Yuriko Furuhata, Alexander R. Galloway, Oliver Gaycken, Bishnupriya Ghosh, Tom Gunning, Andrew R. Johnston, Hervé Joubert-Laurencin, Gertrud Koch, Thomas LaMarre, Christopher P. Lehman, Esther Leslie, John MacKay, Mihaela Mihailova, Marc Steinberg, Tess Takahashi
Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts
Title | Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Hayward |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 550 |
Release | 2002-01-04 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1134587902 |
This is the essential guide for anyone interested in film. Now in its second edition, the text has been completely revised and expanded to meet the needs of today's students and film enthusiasts. Some 150 key genres, movements, theories and production terms are explained and analyzed with depth and clarity. Entries include:* auteur theory* Blaxploitation* British New Wave* feminist film theory* intertextuality* method acting* pornography* Third World Cinema* Vampire movies.
Concepts In Film Theory
Title | Concepts In Film Theory PDF eBook |
Author | D.Andrew |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 239 |
Release | 2008-10-22 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780195699548 |