This volume of specially commissioned work by experts in the field of film studies provides a comprehensive overview of the field. Its international and interdisciplinary approach will have a broad appeal to those interested in this multifaceted subject. Provides a major collection of specially commissioned work by experts in the field of film studies. Represents material under a variety of headings, including class, race, gender, queer theory, nation, stars, ethnography, authorship, and spectatorship. Offers an international approach to the subject, including coverage of topics such as genre, image, sound, editing, culture industries, early cinema, classical Hollywood, and TV relations and technology. Includes concise chapter-by-chapter accounts of the background and current approaches to each topic, followed by a prognostication on the future. Considers cinema studies in relation to other forms of knowledge, such as critical studies, anthropology, and literature.
Author(s): Toby Miller, Robert Stam
Year: 2000
Language: English
Pages: 440
A Companion to Film Theory......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
1 Introduction......Page 9
2 Authorship......Page 17
3 Genre......Page 33
4 Enunciation and Narration......Page 53
5 Film Editing......Page 72
6 Film Semiotics......Page 92
7 Cognitivism......Page 113
8 Psychoanalytic Film Theory......Page 131
9 Spectatorship and Subjectivity......Page 154
10 Laura Mulvey Meets Catherine Tramell Meets the She-Man: Counter-History, Reclamation, and Incongruity in Lesbian, Gay, and Queer Film and Media Criticism......Page 173
11 Is There Class in this Text?: The Repression of Class in Film and Cultural Studies......Page 190
12 Culture Industries......Page 210
13 The Political Economy of Film......Page 229
14 The Work of Theory in the Age of Digital Transformation......Page 242
15 Cultural Exchange......Page 270
16 Shooting Back: From Ethnographic Film to Indigenous Production/ Ethnography of Media......Page 303
17 Psycho’s Bad Timing: The Sensual Obsessions of Film Theory......Page 331
18 Historical Allegory......Page 341
19 Every Picture Tells a Story: José Guadalupe Posada’s Protocinematic Graphic Art......Page 371
20 “Historical Poetics,” Narrative, and Interpretation......Page 395
Index......Page 421
