Contemporary Film Theory

ISBN-13: 9780582090323 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 228 str.

Anthony Easthope

Opis

A series which takes full account of contemporary literary theory, providing collections of key modern readings of major authors, genres and critical approaches. Film and the theory of film provides a unique understanding of 20th century life in the West.

Spis treści

General Editors' Preface.  Acknowledgements.  Part 1 Introduction  Classic film theory; semiotics; politics and ideology; politics and subjectivity; politics and gender  Part 2 Vision and phantasy  Fetishism, Sigmund Freud; the mirror stage, Jacques Lacan. Ideology and subjectivity: cinema, ideology, criticism, Louis Comolli and Jean Narboni; realism and the cinema - notes on some Brechtian theses, Colin MacCabe; class and allegory in contemporary mass culture - "Dog Day Afternoon" as a political film, Fredric Jameson.  Part 3 Gender and the gaze  Visual pleasure and narrative cinema, Laura Mulvey; afterthoughts on "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema"; double indemnity, Claire Johnston; from "Fantasia", Liz Cowie; from "The Desire to Desire", Mary Ann Doane; from "Casablanca" to "Pretty Woman" - the politics of romance, Rob Lapsley and MichaelWestlake.

O autorze

Easthope, Antony