Rushton, Richard.

What is film theory? : an introduction to contemporary debates / Richard Rushton and Gary Bettinson. - Maidenhead : Open University Press, 2010. - 211 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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.

9780335234233 (pbk.) 9780335234226 (hbk.) 0335234232 (pbk.) 0335234224 (hbk.)


Motion pictures--Philosophy.

791.4301 / RUS 2010