Film theory and criticism : introductory readings /
edited by Leo Braudy, Marshall Cohen.
- 5th ed.
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
- xviii, 861 p. ; illus. ; pbk ; 24 cm.
First edition published 1974. Editors : Gerald Mast and Marshall Cohen. Other editions published 1979, 1985, 1992.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
I. Film Language. Vsevolod Podovkin : From Film Technique [On Editing] -- Sergei Eisenstein : From Film Form : Beyond the Shot [The Cinematographic Principle and the Ideogram]; The Dramaturgy of Film Form [The Dialectical Approach to Film Form] -- Andr'e Bazin: From What Is Cinema? : The Evolution of the Language of Cinema -- Brian Henderson : Toward a Non-Bourgeois Camera Style -- Christian Metz : From Film Language : Some Points in the Semiotics of the Cinema ; Problems of Denotation in the Fiction Film -- Gilbert Harman : Semiotics and the Cinema: Metz and Wollen -- Stephen Prince : The Discourse of Pictures: Iconicity and Film Studies -- Daniel Dayan : The Tutor-Code of Classical Cinema -- William Rothman : Against "The System of the Suture" -- Kaja Silverman : From The Subject of Semiotics [On Suture] -- Nick Browne : The Spectator-in-the-Text: The Rhetoric of Stagecoach.
II. Film and Reality. Siegfried Kracauer : From Theory of Film : Basic Concepts -- Siegfried Kracauer : From From Caligari to Hitler ; The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari -- Anrd'e Bazin : From What is Cinema? : The Ontology of the Photographic Image ; The Myth of Total Cinema ; De Sica: Metteur-en-sc`ene -- Rudolf Arnheim : From Film as Art :The Complete Film -- Maya Deren : Cinematography: The Creative Use of Reality -- Stan Brakhage : From Metaphors on Vision -- Robert Stam and Louise Spence : Colonialism, Racism, and Representation: An Introduction -- Christine Gledhill : Recent Developments in Feminist Criticism.
III. The Film Medium: Image and Sound. Erwin Panofsky : Style and Medium in the Motion Pictures -- Siegfried Kracauer : From Theory of Film : The Establishment of Physical Existence -- Bela Balasz From Theory of the Film : The Close-up ; The Face of Man -- Rudolf Arnheim : From Film as Art : Film and Reality ; The Making of a Film -- Noel Carroll : From Philosophical Problems of Classical Film Theory : The Specificity Thesis -- Gerald Mast : From Film/Cinema/Movie : Projection -- Stanley Cavell : From The World Viewed : Photograph and Screen ; Audience, Actor, and Star ; Types; Cycles as Genres ; Ideas of Origin -- Jean-Louis Baudry : Ideological Effects of the Basic Cinematographic Apparatus -- Christian Metz : Aural Objects -- Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevelod Pudovkin, and Grigori Alexandrov : Statement on Sound -- Mary Ann Doane : The Voice in the Cinema: The Articulation of Body and Space -- John Belton : Technology and Aesthetics of Film Sound -- John Ellis : From Visible Fictions : Broadcast TV as Sound and Image. IV. Film Narrative and Other Arts. Hugo Munsterberg : From The Film: A Psychological Study : The Means of the Photoplay -- Andre Bazin : From What is Cinema? : Theater and Cinema -- Leo Braudy : From The World in a Frame : Acting: Stage vs. Screen -- Sergei Eisenstein : From Dickens, Griffith and Ourselves [Dickens, Griffith, and Film Today] -- Seymour Chatman : What Novels Can Do That Films Can't (and Vice Versa) -- Dudley Andrew : From Concepts in Film Theory : Adaptation -- Tom Gunning : Narrative Discourse and the Narrator System -- Seymour Chatman : From Coming to Terms : The Cinematic Narrator -- Kristin Thompson : The Concept of Cinematic Excess -- Peter Wollen : Godard and Counter Cinema: Vent d'Est. V. The Film Artist. Andrew Sarris Notes on the Auteur Theory in 1962 -- Peter Wollen : From Signs and Meaning in the Cinema : The Auteur Theory -- Roland Barthes The Face of Garbo -- John Ellis From Visible Fictions : Stars as Cinematic Phenomenon -- Robert C. Allen From Film History: Theory and Practice : The Role of the Star in Film History [Joan Crawford] -- Molly Hasekll : From From Reverence to Rape : Female Stars of the 1940s -- Joan Mellen : From Women and Their Sexuality in the New Film : The Mae West Nobody Knows -- Miriam Hansen Pleasure, Ambivalence, Identification : Valentino and Female Spectatorship -- Thomas Schatz : From The Genius of the System :"The Whole Equation of Pictures."
VI. Film Genres. Leo Braudy : From The World in a Frame : Genre: The Conventions of Connection -- Rick Altman : A Semantic/Syntactic Approach to Film Genre -- Thomas Schatz : From Hollywood Genres : Film Genre and the Genre Film -- Robert Warshow : Movie Chronicle: The Westerner -- Robin Wood : Ideology, Genre, Auteur -- Bruce Kawin : The Mummy's Pool -- Tania Modleski : The Terror of Pleasure: The Contemporary Horror Film and Postmodern Theory -- Linda Williams : Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess -- David Bordwell : The Art Cinema as a Mode of Film Practice.
VII. Film: Psychology, Society, and Ideology. Walter Benjamin The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction -- Jean-Luk Comolli and Jean Narbomi : Cinema/Ideology/Criticism -- Jean-Louis Baudry : The Apparatus: Metapsychological Approaches to the Impression of Reality in Cinema -- Noel Carroll : From Mystifying Movies : Jean-Louis Baudry and "The Apparatus" -- Parker Tyler From Magic and Myth of the Movies : Preface -- Christian Metz : From The Imaginary Signifier : Identification, Mirror ; The Passion for Perceiving ; Disavowal, Fetishism -- Tom Gunning : An Aesthetic of Astonishment: Early Film and the (In)Credulous Spectator -- Laura Mulvey : Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema -- Manthia Diawara : Black Spectatorship: Problems of Identification and Resistance.