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" What is film theory? : "
Richard Rushton and Gary Bettinson.
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994611
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b748981
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Rushton, Richard.
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What is film theory? : : an introduction to contemporary debates /\ Richard Rushton and Gary Bettinson.
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Maidenhead, England :: Open University Press,, ©2010.
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1 online resource
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0335240380
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0335234224
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0335234232
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1283338661
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9780335234226
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9780335234233
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9781283338660
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-204) and index.
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| Contents
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Structuralism and semiotics: the foundations of contemporary film theory -- Apparatus theory: Jean-Louis Baudry and Christian Metz -- Screen theory: Colin MacCabe and Stephen Heath -- Feminism and film: visual pleasure and identificatory practices -- CInemas of the other: postcolonialism, race and queer theory -- Philosophers and film: Gilles Deleuze and Stanley Cavell -- Film as art: historical poetics and neoformalism -- The cognitive turn: narrative comprehension and character identification -- Recent developments: phenomenology, attractions and audiences.
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"What is Film Theory? outlines the discipline's key theoretical concepts, perspectives, and traditions, and critically examines the assertions posited by exemplary film theorists and philosophers of film. A step-by-step approach to these issues guides the reader through the central topics of film theory. Beginning with a discussion of structuralism and semiotics, and moving through debates on psychoanalysis, feminism, Screen theory, and cultural studies, the authors then examine the perspectives of 'post-theory', cognitivism, and historical poetics, as well as recent developments such as audience research and the 'cinema of attractions'. Analysis of the major theories is supported with detailed and wide-ranging case studies of particular films, including Singin' in the Rain, The Searchers, Tout va bien, Jaws, Do the Right Thing, Brokeback Mountain, and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. These case studies are accompanied by a series of illustrative film and production stills."--Page 4 of cover.
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Feminist film criticism.
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Film criticism.
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Motion pictures-- Aesthetics.
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Motion pictures-- Appreciation.
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Motion pictures-- Philosophy.
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Semiotics and the arts.
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DRAMA-- Anthologies (multiple authors)
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Feminist film criticism.
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Film criticism.
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Filmteori.
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Filmtheorie
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Motion pictures-- Aesthetics.
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Motion pictures-- Appreciation.
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Motion pictures-- Philosophy.
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Semiotics and the arts.
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| Dewey Classification
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808.823
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PN1995.R87 2010
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AP 45100rvk
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Bettinson, Gary.
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