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What is film theory? : an introduction to contemporary debates / Richard Rushton and Gary Bettinson.

By: Rushton, Richard.
Contributor(s): Bettinson, Gary.
Publisher: Maidenhead : Open University Press, 2010Description: 211 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9780335234233 (pbk.); 9780335234226 (hbk.); 0335234232 (pbk.); 0335234224 (hbk.).Subject(s): Motion pictures -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 791.4301
Contents:
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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Includes bibliographical references (p. 194-204) and index.

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.