TY - BOOK AU - Rushton,Richard AU - Bettinson,Gary TI - What is film theory?: an introduction to contemporary debates SN - 9780335234233 (pbk.) U1 - 791.4301 PY - 2010/// CY - Maidenhead PB - Open University Press KW - Motion pictures KW - Philosophy N1 - 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 ER -