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.