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Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Film theory & criticism

East Asian Film Stars (Hardcover): L. Wing-Fai, A. Willis East Asian Film Stars (Hardcover)
L. Wing-Fai, A. Willis
R2,461 R1,830 Discovery Miles 18 300 Save R631 (26%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Many stars from China, Japan and Korea are the most popular and instantly recognizable in the world. East Asian Film Stars brings together some of the world's leading cinema scholars to offer their insights into the work of regional and transnational screen legends, contemporary superstars and mysterious cult personas.

Screenwriting Unchained - Reclaim Your Creative Freedom and Master Story Structure (Hardcover): Emmanuel Oberg Screenwriting Unchained - Reclaim Your Creative Freedom and Master Story Structure (Hardcover)
Emmanuel Oberg
R1,120 Discovery Miles 11 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Black Magic Woman and Narrative Film - Race, Sex and Afro-Religiosity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015): Montre Aza Missouri Black Magic Woman and Narrative Film - Race, Sex and Afro-Religiosity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
Montre Aza Missouri
R2,436 R1,805 Discovery Miles 18 050 Save R631 (26%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Black Magic Woman and Narrative Film examines the transformation of the stereotypical 'tragic mulatto' from tragic to empowered, as represented in independent and mainstream cinema. The author suggests that this transformation is through the character's journey towards African-based religions.

Mussolini's Dream Factory - Film Stardom in Fascist Italy (Hardcover, New): Stephen Gundle Mussolini's Dream Factory - Film Stardom in Fascist Italy (Hardcover, New)
Stephen Gundle
R2,851 Discovery Miles 28 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The intersection between film stardom and politics is an understudied phenomenon of Fascist Italy, despite the fact that the Mussolini regime deemed stardom important enough to warrant sustained attention and interference. Focused on the period from the start of sound cinema to the final end of Fascism in 1945, this book examines the development of an Italian star system and evaluates its place in film production and distribution. The performances and careers of several major stars, including Isa Miranda, Vittorio De Sica, Amedeo Nazzari, and Alida Valli, are closely analyzed in terms of their relationships to the political sphere and broader commercial culture, with consideration of their fates in the aftermath of Fascism. A final chapter explores the place of the stars in popular memory and representations of the Fascist film world in postwar cinema.

Textual Responses to German Unification - Processing Historical and Social Change in Literature and Film (Hardcover, Reprint... Textual Responses to German Unification - Processing Historical and Social Change in Literature and Film (Hardcover, Reprint 2013)
Carol Anne Costabile-Heming, Rachel J. Halverson, Kristie A Foell
R4,216 Discovery Miles 42 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The unification of the two German states changed the geo-political, economic, social, and cultural borders of Germany and Europe. This volume in three parts researches how East German and West German authors and directors reacted to these radical changes. The basis of this research are fictional, autobiographical, journalistic, and cinematic texts. The authors and directors presented in this volume not only comment on the changes which they themselves experienced but also voice their changing attitudes to their own past within the divided Germany.

Gay Suburban Narratives in American and British Culture - Homecoming Queens (Hardcover): M. Dines Gay Suburban Narratives in American and British Culture - Homecoming Queens (Hardcover)
M. Dines
R1,416 Discovery Miles 14 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Martin Dines explores the relationship between the physical & metaphorical spaces of suburbia & the evolution of modern gay identities across a range of British & American film & fiction, looking at the work of Dennis Cooper, Quentin Crisp, Todd Haynes, Christopher Isherwood, Kevin Killian, David Leavitt, Oscar Moore & Edmund White.

Across Texts - Essays on Different Forms of French Textuality (Hardcover): Keith Reader Across Texts - Essays on Different Forms of French Textuality (Hardcover)
Keith Reader
R2,504 Discovery Miles 25 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
From Pinewood to Hollywood - British Filmmakers in American Cinema, 1910-1969 (Hardcover): I. Scott From Pinewood to Hollywood - British Filmmakers in American Cinema, 1910-1969 (Hardcover)
I. Scott
R1,398 Discovery Miles 13 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is about the emigration, film careers and socio-cultural influence of British filmmakers moving to Hollywood in the studio era. It deals with some of the unknown and neglected emigres, as well as the leading lights who founded, initiated and ensured that American film became the leading national cinema of the twentieth century.

The Great Depression on Film (Hardcover): David Luhrssen The Great Depression on Film (Hardcover)
David Luhrssen
R2,063 Discovery Miles 20 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book presents the Great Depression through the lens of 13 films, beginning with movies made during the Depression and ending with films from the 21st century, and encourages readers to examine the various depictions of this period throughout history. The Great Depression on Film is a unique guide to how the Great Depression was represented and is remembered, making it an excellent resource for students or anyone interested in film history or U.S. history. Each film is set in a different sector of American life, focusing on such topics as white supremacy, political protest, segregation, environmental degradation, crime, religion, the class system, and popular culture in the U.S. during the 1930s. This book is indispensable for clearing away misconceptions fostered by the movies while acknowledging the power of film in shaping public memory. The book separates fact from fiction, detailing where the movies are accurate and where they depart from reality, and places them in the larger context of historical and social events. Eyewitness or journalistic accounts are referenced and quoted in the text to help readers differentiate between ideas, attitudes, and events presented in the films, as well as the historical facts which inspired those films. Provides readers with a history of the Great Depression as it played out in the lives of many classes and groups of people in the U.S. Presents a cultural overview of America during that critical time, going beyond politics to include popular music, entertainment, religion, literature, and sports Dives into an exemplary study of the difficulty in dramatizing history on film along with the way film images displace actual history in popular memory Gives a detailed overview of how Hollywood cinema represented and misrepresented life during the Depression

Sexual Difference in European Cinema - The Curse of Enjoyment (Hardcover): F Vighi Sexual Difference in European Cinema - The Curse of Enjoyment (Hardcover)
F Vighi
R1,410 Discovery Miles 14 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

What can film tell us about enjoyment and sexual difference? Can cinematic fiction be more Real than reality? Fabio Vighi looks at Jacques Lacans theory of sexuality alongside some of the best-known works of European cinema, including films by Fellini, Truffaut, Antonioni and Bergman.

Selfless Cinema? - Ethics and French Documentary (Hardcover): Sarah Cooper Selfless Cinema? - Ethics and French Documentary (Hardcover)
Sarah Cooper
R2,650 Discovery Miles 26 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In "Selfless Cinema?", Sarah Cooper maps out the power relations of making, and viewing, documentaries in ethical terms. The ethics of filmmaking are often examined on largely legalistic terms, dominated by issues of consent, responsibility, and participants' or film-makers' rights, but Cooper approaches four representative French film-makers - Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, Raymond Depardon, and Agnes Varda - in a far less juridical way, drawing on the ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. She argues that, in spite of Levinas' iconoclastic, anti-ocular thinking, his concept of visage is richly applicable to film, and especially to documentary.

Early Poverty Row Studios (Hardcover): E. J. Stephens, Marc Wanamaker Early Poverty Row Studios (Hardcover)
E. J. Stephens, Marc Wanamaker
R719 R638 Discovery Miles 6 380 Save R81 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Dancing Women - Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema (Hardcover): Usha Iyer Dancing Women - Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema (Hardcover)
Usha Iyer
R3,371 Discovery Miles 33 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Dancing Women: Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema, an ambitious study of two of South Asia's most popular cultural forms - cinema and dance - historicizes and theorizes the material and cultural production of film dance, a staple attraction of popular Hindi cinema. It explores how the dynamic figurations of the body wrought by cinematic dance forms from the 1930s to the 1990s produce unique constructions of gender, sexuality, stardom, and spectacle. By charting discursive shifts through figurations of dancer-actresses, their publicly performed movements, private training, and the cinematic and extra-diegetic narratives woven around their dancing bodies, the book considers the "women's question" via new mobilities corpo-realized by dancing women. Some of the central figures animating this corporeal history are Azurie, Sadhona Bose, Vyjayanthimala, Helen, Waheeda Rehman, Madhuri Dixit, and Saroj Khan, whose performance histories fold and intersect with those of other dancing women, including devadasis and tawaifs, Eurasian actresses, oriental dancers, vamps, choreographers, and backup dancers. Through a material history of the labor of producing on-screen dance, theoretical frameworks that emphasize collaboration, such as the "choreomusicking body" and "dance musicalization," aesthetic approaches to embodiment drawing on treatises like the Natya Sastra and the Abhinaya Darpana, and formal analyses of cine-choreographic "techno-spectacles," Dancing Women offers a variegated, textured history of cinema, dance, and music. Tracing the gestural genealogies of film dance produces a very different narrative of Bombay cinema, and indeed of South Asian cultural modernities, by way of a corporeal history co-choreographed by a network of remarkable dancing women.

The Art and Making of Aquaman (Hardcover): Mike Avila The Art and Making of Aquaman (Hardcover)
Mike Avila 1
R1,053 R752 Discovery Miles 7 520 Save R301 (29%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Immerse yourself in the art and making of Aquaman, the movie chronicling Arthur Curry's path to a future reign as King of the Seven Seas. The Art and Making of Aquaman takes readers behind the scenes of the 2018 Warner Bros. Pictures film based on the popular DC character. Featuring previously unseen photographs and breathtaking concept art, this book is a must-have for any fan. Witness the epic journey of Aquaman, a Super Hero who struggles to accept his heritage as undersea royalty, in his first solo film. Follow along with the production team as these skilled artists create a unique undersea world for the big screen. Exclusive interviews highlight a comprehensive narrative that flows through this stunning collection of concept sketches, storyboards, set and costume photography, and effects imagery, giving readers an unparalleled look at the making of the film. Directed by James Wan, Aquaman features an all-star cast, with Jason Momoa, Amber Heard, Willem Dafoe, Patrick Wilson, Dolph Lundgren, Ludi Lin, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Temuera Morrison and Nicole Kidman.

The Encyclopedia of LGBTQIA+ Portrayals in American Film (Hardcover): Erica Joan Dymond, Salvador Jimenez Murguia The Encyclopedia of LGBTQIA+ Portrayals in American Film (Hardcover)
Erica Joan Dymond, Salvador Jimenez Murguia
R2,739 Discovery Miles 27 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An invaluable resource examining LGBTQIA+ portrayals in contemporary American film. The depictions of LGBTQIA+ characters in film have always varied immensely. However, the negative depictions often seem to outweigh the positive, perhaps because of the hurt they inspire or perhaps because they regrettably outnumber the positive films. The Encyclopedia of LGBTQIA+ Portrayals in American Film explores works from the past fifty years in order to not only discuss how LGBTQIA+ characters are portrayed in American film, but also how these portrayals affect viewers. Contributors to this valuable reference include film and media scholars, gender studies scholars, journalists, LGBTQIA+ advocates, and more, representing countries from around the world. This rich array of perspectives provide careful and critical examinations of more than 100 films, ranging from the ethical and compassionate to the deliberately cruel and destructive. Featuring films such as American Beauty, Batman v Superman, Fight Club, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Little Miss Sunshine, and Venom, this extensive volume informs and educates scholars and general readers alike, guiding them to see injustice more clearly and inspiring future generations to create art that is both inclusive and thoughtful.

Medieval and Early Modern Film and Media (Hardcover): R. Burt Medieval and Early Modern Film and Media (Hardcover)
R. Burt
R1,435 Discovery Miles 14 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Medieval and Early Modern Film and Media" contextualizes historical films in an innovative way--not only relating them to the history of cinema, but also to premodern and early modern media. This philological approach to the (pre)history of cinema engages both old media such as scrolls, illuminated manuscripts, the Bayeux Tapestry, and new digital media such as DVDs, HD DVDs, and computers. Burt examines the uncanny repetitions that now fragment films into successively released alternate cuts and extras (footnote tracks, audiocommentaries, and documentaries) that (re)structure and reframe historical films, thereby presenting new challenges to historicist criticism and film theory. With a double focus on recursive narrative frames and the cinematic paratexts of medieval and early modern film, this book calls our attention to strange, sometimes opaque phenomena in film and literary theory that have previously gone unrecognized.

Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. - Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman (Paperback): Sam Wasson Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. - Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman (Paperback)
Sam Wasson
R402 R374 Discovery Miles 3 740 Save R28 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"So smart and entertaining it should come with its own popcorn"-People Coinciding with the sixtieth anniversary of the film version of Truman Capote's Breakast at Tiffany's, the acclaimed, New York Times bestseller that is the definitive account of Audrey Hepburn and the making of the cultural landmark film-now updated with a new introduction by the author. In Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M., Sam Wasson goes beyond the legend to explore the woman inside the little black dress and the film that captured the imagination of the nation in 1961-when the staid propriety of the Eisenhower years gave way to the glamorous modernity of the Kennedys. With a colorful cast of characters including Truman Capote, Edith Head, Givenchy, Moon River composer Henry Mancini, and, of course, the iconic Audrey Hepburn herself, Wasson immerses us in the America of the late fifties and early sixties before Woodstock and birth control, when an alluring, not-so-virginal girl by the name of Holly Golightly melted hearts, raised eyebrows, and forever transformed Americans' notions of fashion, film, sex, and culture. Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. includes an 8-page black-and-white photo insert.

The Mad Max Effect - Road Warriors in International Exploitation Cinema (Hardcover): James Newton The Mad Max Effect - Road Warriors in International Exploitation Cinema (Hardcover)
James Newton
R3,104 Discovery Miles 31 040 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The Mad Max Effect provides an in-depth analysis of the Mad Max series, and how it began as an inventive concoction of a number of influences from a range of exploitation genres (including the biker movie, the revenge film, and the car chase cinema of the 1970s), to eventually inspiring a fresh cycle of international low budget 'road warrior' movies that appeared on home video in the 1980s. The Mad Max Effect is the first detailed academic study of the most famous and celebrated post-apocalypse film series, and examines how a humble Australian action movie came from the cultural margins of exploitation cinema to have a profound impact on the broader media landscape.

Hitchcock - Past and Future (Hardcover): Richard Allen, Sam Ishii-Gonzales Hitchcock - Past and Future (Hardcover)
Richard Allen, Sam Ishii-Gonzales
R4,214 Discovery Miles 42 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This new collection of writings on Alfred Hitchcock celebrates the remarkable depth and scope of his artistic achievement in film. It explores his works in relationship both to their social context and to the traditions of critical theory they continue to inspire. The collection draws on the best of current Hitchcock scholarship, featuring the work of both new and established scholars. It displays the full diversity of critical methods that have characterized the study of this director's films in recent years. The articles are grouped into four thematic sections: "Authorship and Aesthetics" examines Hitchcock as auteur and investigates central topics in Hitchcockian aesthetics. "French Hitchcock" looks at Hitchcock's influence on filmmakers such as Chabrol, Truffaut and Rohmer, and how film critics such as Bazin and Deleuze have engaged with Hitchcock's work. "Poetics and Politics of Identity" explores the representation of personal and political in Hitchcock's work, and the final section, "Death and Transfiguration" addresses the manner in which the spectacle and figuration of death haunts the narrative universe of Hitchcock's films, in particular his subversive masterpiece "Psycho,"

Film Theory - Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies (Hardcover): K. J. Shepherdson, Philip Simpson, Andrew Utterson Film Theory - Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies (Hardcover)
K. J. Shepherdson, Philip Simpson, Andrew Utterson
R21,455 Discovery Miles 214 550 Ships in 10 - 15 working days


Contents:
Volume I
Part 1: Essence and Specificity
1. Ricciotto Canudo, 'The Birth of the Sixth Art', translated by Ben Gibson, Don Ranvaud, Sergio Sokota and Deborah Young, Framework, 13, Autumn 1980, pp. 3-7. (Originally published in Les Entretiens Idealistes, 25th October, 1911).
2. Vachel Lindsay, 'Sculpture-in-Motion', in The Art of the Moving Picture, (New York: Macmillan, 1915), pp. 79-96.
3. Hugo Münsterberg , 'The Means of the Photoplay', in The Photoplay: A Psychological Study, (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1916), pp. 170-190.
4. Louis Delluc, 'Photogénie', in Pierre Lherminier, ed., Ecrits Cinématographiques I: Le Cinéma et les Cinéastes, (Paris: Cinémathèque Française, 1985), pp. 34-35. (Originally published in Paris, 1920).
5. Jean Epstein, 'On Certain Characteristics of Photogénie', translated by Tom Milne, Afterimage, 10, Autumn 1981, pp. 20-23. (Originally published in Jean Epstein, Le Cinématographe vu de l'Etna, Paris: Les Écrivains réunis, 1923).
6. Germaine Dulac, 'The Essence of the Cinema: The Visual Idea', translated by Robert Lamberton, in P. Adams Sitney, ed., The Avant-Garde Film: A Reader of Theory and Criticism, (New York: New York University Press, 1978), pp. 36-42. (Originally published in Les Cahiers du Mois, 16/17, 1925).
7. Maya Deren, 'The Instrument of Discovery and the Instrument of Invention/The Art of Film', in An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film, (New York: Alicat Bookshop Press, 1946), pp. 44-52.
8. Stan Brakhage, Extracts from 'Metaphors on Vision': subtitled 'Metaphors on Vision' and 'The Camera Eye', Film Culture, Fall 1963, unpaginated.
9. Noël Carroll, 'Concerning Uniqueness Claims for Photographic and Cinematographic Representation', Dialectics and Humanism, 14, 2, 1987, pp. 29-43.
Part 2: Language
10. Sergei Eisenstein, Extract from 'The Montage of Film Attractions', translated by Richard Taylor, in Richard Taylor, ed., S. M. Eisenstein: Writings 1922-34 Selected Works Volume 1, (London: British Film Institute, 1988), pp. 39-49. (Originally published in 1924).
11. Viktor Shklovsky, 'The Semantics of Cinema', translated by Richard Taylor, in Ian Christie and Richard Taylor, eds., The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939, (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1988), pp. 131-133. (Originally published as V. B. Shklovskii, 'Semontika kino', Kinozhumal A. R. K., 8, August, 1925).
12. V. I. Pudovkin, 'The Plastic Material', translated by Ivor Montagu, in On Film Technique: Three Essays and an Address by V. I. Pudovkin, (London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1929), pp. 50-72. (Originally published in 1926).
13. Lev Kuleshov, 'Montage as the Foundation of Cinematography', translated by Ronald Levaco, in Ronald Levaco, ed., Kuleshov on Film: Film Writings by Lev Kuleshov, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974), pp. 42-55. (Originally published in 1929).
14. André Bazin, 'The Evolution of the Language of Cinema', translated by Hugh Gray, in Hugh Gray, ed., What is Cinema? Vol. 1, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967), pp. 23-40. (Revised from articles originally published in 1950, 1952 and 1955).
15. Christian Metz, extract from 'The Cinema: Language or Language System?', translated by Michael Taylor, in Film Language: A Semiotics of the Cinema, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1974), pp. 31-91. (Extract: pp. 31-57, pp. 61-65, pp. 67-69). (Originally published in Christian Metz, Essais sur la signification au cinema, 1964).
16. Peter Wollen, 'The Semiology of the Cinema', in Signs and Meaning in the Cinema, (London: Secker and Warburg in Association with the British Film Institute, 1969), pp. 116-155.
17. Roland Barthes, 'The Third Meaning: Research Notes on some Eisenstein Stills', translated by Stephen Heath, in Image-Music-Text, (London: Fontana, 1977), pp. 52-68. (Originally published as 'Le troisiéme sens: Notes de recherché sur quelques photogrammes de S. M. Eisenstein', Cahiers du cinema, 222, 1970).
Part 3: Technologies
18. Henry V. Hopwood, 'Past, Present, and Future', in Living Pictures: Their History, Photo-Production and Practical Working, (London: The Optician and Photographic Trades Review, 1899), pp. 225-234.
19. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Bruno Corra, Emilio Settimelli, Arnaldo Ginna, Giacomo Balla and Remo Chiti, 'The Futurist Cinema', translated by R. W. Flint, in R. W. Flint, ed., Marinetti: Selected Writings, (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1971), pp. 130-134. (Originally published as 'La cinematogria futurista' in L'Italia futurista, November 15, Milan, 1916).
20. Dziga Vertov, 'Kinoks: A Revolution', translated by Kevin O'Brien, in Annette Michelson, ed., Kino-Eye: The Writings of Dziga Vertov, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984), pp. 11-21. (Originally published in 1923).
21. Walter Benjamin, 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', translated by Harry Zohn, in Hannah Arendt, ed., Illuminations: Essays and Reflections, (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1968), pp. 219-253. (Originally published in 1936).
22. André Bazin, 'The Myth of Total Cinema', translated by Hugh Gray, in Hugh Gray, ed., What is Cinema? Vol. 1, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967), pp. 17-22. (Originally published as 'Le mythe du cinéma total', in Critique, 1946).
23. Claudia Springer, 'The Pleasure of the Interface', Screen, 32, 3, Autumn 1991, pp. 303-323.
24. Lev Manovich, 'Digital Cinema and the History of a Moving Image', in The Language of New Media, (Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press, 2001), pp. 293-308. (An earlier version of this article was originally published in 1996).

Volume II
Part 4: Authorship
25. François Truffaut, 'A Certain Tendency of the French Cinema', translator not specified, Cahiers du Cinema in English, 1, January 1966, pp. 30-41. (Originally published in 1954).
26. Andrew Sarris, 'Notes on the Auteur Theory in 1962', Film Culture, 27, Winter 1962, pp. 1-8.
27. Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, 'Luchino Visconti: Introduction', in Luchino Visconti, (London: Secker & Warburg in Association with the British Film Institute, 1967), pp. 7-13.
28. Peter Wollen, 'The Auteur Theory', in Signs and Meaning in the Cinema, (London: Secker & Warburg in Association with the British Film Institute, 1969), pp. 74-115.
29. Peter Wollen, 'Signs and Meaning in the Cinema: Conclusion', in Signs and Meaning in the Cinema, Revised Edition, (London: Secker & Warburg in Association with the British Film Institute, 1972), pp. 155-175.
30. John Caughie, 'Fiction of the Author/Author of the Fiction', in John Caughie, ed., Theories of Authorship: A Reader, (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul in association with the British Film Institute, 1981), pp. 199-207.
31. Timothy Corrigan, 'Auteurs and the New Hollywood', in Jon Lewis, ed., The New American Cinema, (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998), pp. 38-63.
Part 5: Genre
32. Steve Neale, 'Definitions of Genre', in Genre and Hollywood, (London: Routledge, 2000), pp. 9-29.
33. André Bazin, 'The Western or the American Film par Excellence', translated by Hugh Gray, in What is Cinema? Vol. 2, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972), pp. 140-148 . (Originally published as 'Le western ou le cinéma américain par excellence', preface to J.-L. Rieupeyrout, Le western ou le cinéma américain par excellence, 7eme Art, Éditions du Cerf, 1953.)
34. Nino Frank, 'A New Kind of Police Drama: The Criminal Adventure', translated by Alain Silver, in Alain Silver and James Ursini, eds., Film Noir Reader 2, (New York: Limelight Editions, 1999), pp. 15-19. (Originally published in 1946).
35. Jean-Pierre Chartier, 'Americans also Make Noir Films', translated by Alain Silver, in Alain Silver and James Ursini, eds., Film Noir Reader 2, (New York: Limelight Editions, 1999), pp. 21-23. (Originally published in 1946).
36. Robert Warshow, 'The Gangster as Tragic Hero', Partisan Review, February 1948, pp..
37. Paul Schrader, 'Notes on Film Noir', Film Comment, 8, 1, Spring 1972, pp. 8-13.
38. Jim Collins, 'Genericity in the Nineties: Eclectic Irony and the New Sincerity', in Jim Collins, Hilary Radner and Ava Preacher Collins, eds., Film Theory Goes to the Movies: Cultural Analysis of Contemporary Film, (New York: Routledge Inc., 1993), pp. 242-263.
39. Steve Neale, 'Issues, Conclusions and Questions', in Genre and Hollywood, (London: Routledge, 2000), pp. 251-255.
Part 6: Narrative and Narration
40. Julia Lesage, 'S/Z and Rules of the Game', Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Cinema, 12-13, Winter 1976-77, pp. 45-51.
41. Will Wright, 'The Structure of Myth' (Extract), 'Myth as a Narrative of Social Action' and 'Individuals and Values: The Classical Plot', in Sixguns and Society: A Structural Study of the Western, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977), pp. 16-28 (Extract: pp. 25-28), pp. 124-129 and pp. 130-153.
42. David Bordwell, 'Principles of Narration', in Narration in the Fiction Film, (Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985), pp. 48-62.
43. Bill Nichols, 'Form Wars: The Political Unconscious of Formalist Theory', South Atlantic Quarterly, 88, 2, Spring 1989, pp. 487-515.
44. Tom Gunning, 'Theory and History: Narrative Discourse and the Narrator System', in D. W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film: The Early Years at Biograph, (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991), pp. 10-30 .
45. Edward Branigan, 'Levels of Narration', in Narrative Comprehension and Film, (London: Routledge, 1992), pp. 87-124.
Volume III
Part 7: Audiences and Spectatorship
46. Maxim Gorky, 'The Lumière Cinematograph', translated by Richard Taylor, in Ian Christie and Richard Taylor, eds., The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939, (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1988), pp. 25-26. (Originally published as 'I.M. Pacatus', 'Beglye zametki. Sinematograf Lyum'era', Nizhegorodskii listok, 4 July 1896).
47. Emilie Altenloh, 'A Sociology of the Cinema: The Audience', translated by Kathleen Cross, Screen, 42, 3, Autumn 2001, pp. 249-293. (Originally published as Zur Soziologie des Kino, 1914).
48. Laura Mulvey 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema', Screen, 16, 3, Autumn 1975, pp. 6-18.
49. Laura Mulvey, 'Afterthoughts on 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema' Inspired by Duel in the Sun (King Vidor, 1946)', Framework, 15-17, 1981, pp. 12-15.
50. Tom Gunning, 'An Aesthetic of Astonishment: Early Film and the Incredulous Spectator', Art and Text, 34, Spring 1989, pp. 31-45.
51. Mary Carbine, '"The Finest Outside the Loop": Motion Picture Exhibition in Chicago's Black Metropolis, 1905-1928', Camera Obscura, 22, 1990, pp. 9-41.
52. Jackie Stacey, 'Feminine Fascinations: A Question of Identification?', in Star Gazing: Hollywood Cinema and Female Spectatorship, (London: Routledge, 1994), pp. 126-175.
Part 8: Personal Identities and Representation
53. Geraldyn Dismond, 'The Negro Actor and the American Movies', in James Donald, Anne Friedberg and Laura Marcus, eds., Close Up 1927-1933: Cinema and Modernism, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999), pp. 73-79. (Originally published in Close Up, 5, 2, August 1929, pp. 6-13).
54. Parker Tyler, 'Mother Superior of the Faggots and Some Rival Queens', in Screening the Sexes: Homosexuality in the Movies, (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972), pp. 1-16.
55. Claire Johnston, 'Women's Cinema as Counter-Cinema', in Claire Johnston, ed., Notes on Women's Cinema, (London: Society for Education in Film and Television, 1973), pp. 24-31.
56. Teresa de Lauretis, 'Aesthetic and Feminist Theory: Rethinking Women's Cinema', New German Critique, 34, Winter 1985, pp. 154-175.
57. Richard Dyer, 'White', Screen, 29, 4, Autumn 1988, pp. 44-64.
58. bell hooks, 'The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators' in Black Looks: Race and Representation, (London: Turnaround, 1992), pp. 115-131.
59. Judith Butler, 'Gender is Burning: Questions of Appropriation and Subversion', in Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex", (New York: Routledge Inc., 1993), pp. 121-140.
60. Yvonne Tasker, 'Women Warriors: Gender, Sexuality and Hollywood's Fighting Heroines', in Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre and the Action Cinema, (London: Routledge, 1993), pp. 14-34.
Part 9: Cultural Identities, Colonialism and Postcolonialism
61. Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino, 'Towards a Third Cinema: Notes and Experiences for the Development of a Cinema of Liberation in the Third World', translated by Julianne Burton and Michael Chanan, in Michael Chanan, ed., Twenty-five Years of the New Latin American Cinema, (London: British Film Institute and Channel Four Television, 1983), pp. 17-27. (Originally published in 1969)
62. Julio García Espinosa, 'For an Imperfect Cinema', translated by Julianne Burton, in Michael Chanan, ed., Twenty-five Years of the New Latin American Cinema, (London: British Film Institute and Channel Four Television, 1983), pp. 28-33. (Originally published in 1970).
63. The Committee on Peoples Cinema (under the Chairmanship of Lamine Merbah), 'Resolutions of the Third World Film-Makers Meeting, Algiers, Algeria, December 5-14, 1973', Cineaste Pamphlet No. 1, Cineaste Magazine, 1974, unpaginated.
64. Homi K. Bhabha, 'The Other Question: The Stereotype and Colonial Discourse', Screen, 24, 6, November/December 1983, pp. 18-36.
65. Teshome H. Gabriel, 'Towards a Critical Theory of Third World Films', in Altaf Gauhar, ed., Third World Affairs 1985, (London: Third World Foundation, 1985), pp. 355-369.
66. Trinh T. Minh-ha 'Outside In Inside Out', in Jim Pines and Paul Willemen, eds., Questions of Third Cinema, (London: British Film Institute, 1989), pp. 133-149.
67. Stuart Hall, 'Cultural Identity and Cinematic Representation', Framework, 36, 1989, pp. 68-81.
68. Edward Said, 'Jungle Calling: On Johnny Weissmuller's Tarzan', Interview, 19, 6, June 1989, pp. 60-65 & p. 112.
Volume IV
Part 10: Realism and the Real
69. Siegfried Kracauer, Extract from 'Basic Concepts', in Theory of Film: The Redemption of Physical Reality, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1960), pp. 27-39 (Extract: p. 27 & pp. 30-39).
70. André Bazin, 'The Ontology of the Photographic Image', translated by Hugh Gray, in Hugh Gray ed., What is Cinema? Vol. I, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967), pp. 9-16. (Originally published as 'Ontologie de l'image photographique', Problemes de la peinture, 1945).
71. Rudolf Arnheim, 'Film and Nature', translated by L. M. Sieveking and Ian F. D. Morrow, in Film, (London: Faber and Faber, 1933), pp. 17-38.
72. Cesare Zavattini, 'Some Ideas on the Cinema', translated by Pier Luigi Lanza, Sight and Sound, 23, 2, October-December 1953, pp. 64-69. (Originally published in 1952).
73. Colin MacCabe, 'Realism and the Cinema: Notes on some Brechtian Theses', Screen, 15, 2, Summer 1974, pp. 7-27.
74. Raymond Williams, 'A Lecture on Realism', Screen, 18, 1, Spring 1977, pp. 61-74.
75. Stephen Prince, 'True Lies: Perceptual Realism, Digital Images, and Film Theory', Film Quarterly, 49, 3, Spring 1996, pp. 27-37.
76. Julia Hallam with Margaret Marshment, Extract from 'Space, Place and Identity: Re-viewing Social Realism', in Realism and Popular Cinema, (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000), pp. 184 -219 (Extract: pp. 190-219).
Part 11: Modernism and Postmodernism
77. Peter Wollen, 'The Two Avant-Gardes', Studio International: Film Issue, 190, 978, November-December 1975, pp. 171-175.
78. Dziga Vertov, 'We: Variant of a Manifesto', translated by Kevin O'Brien, in Annette Michelson, ed., Kino-Eye: The Writings of Dziga Vertov, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984), pp. 5-9. (Originally published in 1922).
79. Sergei Eisenstein, 'The Problem of the Materialist Approach to Form', translated by Richard Taylor and William Powell, in Richard Taylor, ed., The Eisenstein Reader, (London: British Film Institute, 1998), pp. 53-59. (Originally published as 'K vopruso o materialisticheskom podkhode k forme' Kinozhurnal ARK, 4/5, April/May, 1925).
80. Peter Gidal, 'Theory and Definition of Structural/Materialist Film', Studio International: Film Issue, 190, 978, November-December 1975, pp. 189-196.
81. J. Hoberman, 'Vulgar Modernism', Artforum, 20, 6, February 1982, pp. 71-76.
82. Jean Baudrillard, 'The Evil Demon of Images', translated by Paul Patton and Paul Foss, Power Institute Of Fine Arts Publication Number 3, 1987, pp. 13-31. (Originally from 'The Evil Demon of Images', The First Mari Kuttna Memorial Lecture, The University of Sydney, 25th July 1984).
83. Fredric Jameson ,'Postmodernism and Consumer Society', in Ann E. Kaplan, ed., Postmodernism and Its Discontents: Theories, Practices, (London: Verso, 1988), pp. 13-29.
84. Giuliana Bruno, 'Ramble City: Postmodernism and Blade Runner', October, 41, Summer 1987, pp. 61-74.
85. Linda Hutcheon, 'Postmodern Film?', in The Politics of Postmodernism, (London: Routledge, 1989), pp. 107-117.
86. Peter Brooker and Will Brooker, 'Pulpmodernism: Tarantino's Affirmative Action', in Deborah Cartmell, I. Q. Hunter, Heidi Kaye and Imelda Whelehan, eds., Pulping Fictions: Consuming Culture Across the Literature/Media Divide, (London: Pluto Press, 1996), pp. 135-151.
Part 12: Economics and Globalisation
87. Janet Staiger, Extract from 'The Hollywood Mode of Production 1930-1960', in David Bordwell, Janet Staiger and Kristin Thompson, The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style and Mode of Production, (London: Routledge, 1988), pp. 311-319, (Extract: 313-319).
88. Mae D. Huettig, 'The Motion Picture Industry Today', in Economic Control in the Motion Picture Industry: A Study in Industrial Organization, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1944), pp. 54-95.
89. Thomas H. Guback, 'Hollywood's International Market', in Tino Balio (ed.), The American Film Industry, (Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1976), pp. 387-409.
90. Tino Balio, '"A Major Presence in all of the World's Important Markets": The Globalization of Hollywood in the 1990s', in Murray Smith and Steve Neale (eds.), Contemporary Hollywood Cinema, (London: Routledge, 1998), pp. 58-73.
91. Constance Balides, 'Jurassic Post-Fordism: Tall Tales of Economics in the Theme Park', Screen, 41, 2

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