With Post-Theory , David Bordwell and No???l Carroll challenge the prevailing practices of film scholarship. Since the 1970s, film scholars have been searching for a unified theory that will explain all sorts of films, their production, and their reception; the field has been dominated by structuralist Marxism, varieties of cultural theory, and the psychoanalytic ideas of Freud and Lacan. Bordwell and Carroll ask, why not employ many theories tailored to specific goals, rather than searching for a unified theory? Post ...
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With Post-Theory , David Bordwell and No???l Carroll challenge the prevailing practices of film scholarship. Since the 1970s, film scholars have been searching for a unified theory that will explain all sorts of films, their production, and their reception; the field has been dominated by structuralist Marxism, varieties of cultural theory, and the psychoanalytic ideas of Freud and Lacan. Bordwell and Carroll ask, why not employ many theories tailored to specific goals, rather than searching for a unified theory? Post-Theory offers fresh directions for understanding film, presenting new essays by twenty-seven scholars on topics as diverse as film scores, audience response, and the national film industries of Russia, Scandinavia, the U.S., and Japan. They use historical, philosophical, psychological, and feminist methods to tackle such basic issues as: What goes on when viewers perceive a film? How do filmmakers exploit conventions? How do movies create illusions? How does a film arouse emotion? Bordwell and Carroll have given space not only to distinguished film scholars but to non-film specialists as well, ensuring a wide variety of opinions and ideas on virtually every topic on the current agenda of film studies. Full of stimulating essays published here for the first time, Post-Theory promises to redefine the study of cinema.
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Physical description; xvii, 563 p. : ill. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Intro--Contents--Contributors--Introduct One. State of the Art--1. Contemporary Film Studies and the Vicissitudes of Grand Theory (David Bordwell)--2. Prospects for Film Theory: A Personal Assessment (Noël Carroll)--Part Two. Film Theory and Aesthetics--3. Psychoanalytic Film Theory and the Problem of the Missing Spectator (Stephen Prince)--4. Convention, Construction, and Cinematic Vision (David Bordwell)--5. Is a Cognitive Approach to the Avant-garde Cinema Perverse? (James Peterson)--6. The Logic and Legacy of Brechtianism (Murray Smith)--7. Characterization and Fictional Truth in the Cinema (Paisley Livingston)--8. Empathy and (Film) Fiction (Alex Neill)--9. Feminist Frameworks for Horror Films (Cynthia A. Freeland)--10. Apt Feelings, or Why "Women's Films" Aren't Trivial (Flo Leibowitz)--11. Unheard Melodies? A Critique of Psychoanalytic Theories of Film Music (Jeff Smith)--12. Film Music and Narrative Agency (Jerrold Levinson)--13. Nonfiction Film and Postmodernist Skepticism (Noël Carroll)--14. Moving Pictures and the Rhetoric of Nonfiction Film: Two Approaches (Carl Plantinga)--15. Film, Reality, and Illusion (Gregory Currie)--Part Three. Psychology of Film--16. The Case for an Ecological Metatheory (Joseph Anderson and Barbara Anderson)--17. Movies in the Mind's Eye (Julian Hochberg and Virginia Brooks)--18. Notes on Audience Response (Richard J. Gerrig and Deborah A. Prentice)--Part Four. History and Analysis--19. Toward a New Media Economics (Douglas Gomery)--20. Columbia Pictures: The Making of a Motion Picture Major, 1930 1943 (Tino Balio)--21. "A Brief Romantic Interlude": Dick and Jane Go to 3 1/2 Seconds of the Classical Hollywood Cinema (Richard Malthy)--22. The Jazz Singer's Reception in the Media and at the Box Office (Donald Crafton). 23. Jameson and "Global Aesthetics" (Michael Walsh)--24. Reconstructing Japanese Film (Donald Kirihara)--25. Danish Cinema and the Politics of Recognition (Mette Hjort)--26. Whose Apparatus? Problems of Film Exhibition and History (Vance Kepley, Jr. )--Selected Bibliography--Index. Subjects; Motion pictures. Film theory. Motion picture audiences. Motion picture industry. Film history. Cinema films. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.
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