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Yet to catalogue book		Brazilian cinema / Randal Johnson and Robert Stam, editors New York: Columbia University Press, 1995. Call No: 71(81) BRA Author: Johnson, Randal, 1948; Stam, Robert, 1941 Edition: Expanded ed., Morningside ed Place: New York Publisher: Columbia University Press PubDate: 1995 PhysDes: 491 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 0231102674 (pbk. : alk. paper) LON: bnb23110267; 11551025 More info
book		Brazilian cinema / edited by Randal Johnson and Robert Stam Austin: University of Texas Press, 1988, c1982. Call No: 71(81) JOH Author: Johnson, Randal, 1948; Stam, Robert, 1941 Place: Austin Publisher: University of Texas Press PubDate: 1988, c1982 PhysDes: 373 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: BRAZIL ISBN: 0292707673 LON: 7026654 More info
Online resource book		Film Theory : an introduction / by Robert Stam Malden, MA ; Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2000. Available at ProQuest (RMIT login required) Call No: 62 STA Author: Stam, Robert Source: US/UK/AT Place: Malden, MA ; Oxford Publisher: Blackwell Publishing PubDate: 2000 PhysDes: x, 381 pages ; 23 cm Subject: FILM; THEORY; AUTEUR THEORY; FORMALISM; MOVEMENTS AND STYLES IN FILM HISTORY; MOVEMENTS IN FILM HISTORY; STRUCTURALISM; REALISM IN FILMS; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS; RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA; POSTCOLONIALISM AND THE CINEMA; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA Summary: " Film Theory: An Introduction offers a comprehensive history of film theory during the "century of cinema." The book moves all the way from silent-era theorists like Vachel Lindsay and Hugo Munsterberg through to the latest developments in film theory and cultural studies (cognitive theory, Deleuze, queer theory, postcolonial theory, digital theory), international in scope, the volume ranges over developments in such countries as France, Germany, Russia, Italy, Great Britain, the United States, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina, trying always to stress the links between these developments. The book also contextualizes film theory within larger historical and philosophical currents.Written in sophisticated yet accessible language, Film Theory: An Introduction provides a lucid and coherent introduction to a rich and variegated field. " -- BOOK BACK COVER Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 9780631206545 Contents: -- preface -- introduction -- The antecedents of film theory -- Film and film theory : the beginnings -- Early silent film theory -- The essence of cinema -- The Soviet montage-theorists -- Russian formalism and the Bakhtin School -- The historical avant-gardes -- The debate after sound -- The Frankfurt School -- The phenomenology of realism -- The cult of the auteur -- The Americanization of auteur theory -- Third world film and theory -- The advent of structuralism -- The question of film language -- Cinematic specificity revisited -- Interrogating authorship and genre -- 1968 and the leftist turn -- The classic realist text -- The presence of Brecht -- The politics of reflexitivity -- The search for alternative aesthetics -- From linguistics to psychoanalysis -- From feminist intervention -- The postsructuralist mutation -- Textual analysis -- Interpretation and its discontents -- From text to intertext -- The amplification of sound -- The rise of cultural studies -- The birth of the spectator -- Cognitive and analytic theory -- Semiotics revisited -- Just in time : the impact of Deleuze -- The coming out of queer theory -- Multiculturalism, race, and representation -- Third cinema revisited -- Film and the postcolonial -- The poetics and politics of postmodernism -- The social valence of mass-culture -- Post-cinema : digital theory and the new media -- The pluralization of film theory -- notes -- select bibliography -- index -- More info
book		New vocabularies in film semiotics : structuralism, post-structuralism, and beyond / Robert Stam, Robert Burgoyne, and Sandy Flitterman-Lewis London New York: Routledge, 1992. Call No: 623 STA Author: Stam, Robert, 1941; Burgoyne, Robert, 1949; Flitterman-Lewis, Sandy, 1946 Place: London New York Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 1992 PhysDes: xv, 239 p. ; 25 cm Subject: SEMIOLOGY; STRUCTURALISM; THEORY; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; GAZE IN FILMS; REALISM IN FILMS; METZ, CHRISTIAN; BAHTIN, MIHAIL Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 222-232) and index ISBN: 041506595X (pbk.); 0415065941 (hardback) LON: 8160190 More info
book		Reflexivity in film and literature : from Don Quixote to Jean-Luc Godard / by Robert Stam New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. Call No: 632.2 STA Author: Stam, Robert, 1941 Place: New York Publisher: Columbia University Press PubDate: 1992 PhysDes: xxi, 285 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Notes: Originally published: Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press, c1985. With new pref; Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-280) and index ISBN: 0231079443 (cloth : acid-free paper) : $29.00; 0231079451 (pbk. : acid-free paper) : $14.50 LON: 92005630; 8940972 More info
book		Subversive pleasures : Bakhtim, cultural criticism, and film / Robert Stam Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1989. Call No: 620 BAK STA Author: Stam, Robert Place: Baltimore Publisher: John Hopkins University Press PubDate: 1989 PhysDes: xiii, 274 pages ; 24 cm. Series: Parallax Subject: BAHTIN, MIHAIL; ALLEN, WOODY; BUNUEL, LUIS; CANNIBALISM IN FILMS; BRAZIL; SEMIOLOGY; DIALOGUE; FORMALISM; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; PORNOGRAPHY; SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM; ZELIG (US, Woody Allen, 1983) Summary: Applying Bakhtin's critical methods to film, mass-media and cultural studies, Stam draws on Bakhtin's corporal semiotics of "the grotesque body" to analyze eroticism in the cinema, and explores issues including the "translinguistic" critique of Saussurean semiotics and Russian formalism. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-258) and index. ISBN: 0801845092 Donation: Adrian Miles Contents: Translinguistics and Semiotics -- Language, Difference, and Power -- Film, Literature, and the Carnivalesque -- Of Cannibals and Carnivals -- The Grotesque Body and Cinematic Eroticism -- From Dialogism to Zelig -- Envoi: Bakhtin and Mass-Media Critique. ID2: 343 More info

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