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Breaking the glass armor : neoformalist film analysis / Kristin Thompson Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1988.
Call No: 623.75 THOAuthor: Thompson, Kristin, 1950 Place: Princeton, N.J.Publisher: Princeton University PressPubDate: 1988PhysDes: x, 361 p., [41] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cmSubject: FORMALISM ; REALISM IN FILMS ; TERROR BY NIGHT (US, Roy William Neill, 1946) ; VACANCES DE M. HULOT, LES (FR, Jacques Tati, 1953) ; TOUT VA BIEN (FR/IT, Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin, 1972) ; STAGE FRIGHT (UK, Alfred Hitchcock, 1950) ; LAURA (US, Otto Preminger, 1944) ; LADRI DI BICICLETTE (IT, Vittorio De Sica, 1949) ; REGLE DU JEU, LA (FR, Jean Renoir, 1939) ; PLAYTIME (FR, Jacques Tati, 1967) ; SAUVE QUI PEUT (LA VIE) (FR/SZ, Jean-Luc Godard, 1980) ; LANCELOT DU LAC (FR/IT, Robert Bresson, 1974) ; BANSHU (JA, Ozu Yasujiro, 1949) Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 0691067244 (alk. paper)LON: 5669174ID2: 291
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Film Theory : an introduction / by Robert Stam Malden, MA ; Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2000. Available at ProQuest (RMIT login required)
Call No: 62 STAAuthor: Stam, Robert Source: US/UK/ATPlace: Malden, MA ; OxfordPublisher: Blackwell PublishingPubDate: 2000PhysDes: x, 381 pages ; 23 cmSubject: 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 COVERNotes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9780631206545Contents: -- 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 --
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Genre and Hollywood / Steve Neale London: Routledge, 2000.
Call No: 64GEN NEAAuthor: Neale, Steve Place: LondonPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 2000PhysDes: viii, 336 p. ; 25 cmSubject: GENRES ; FILM NOIR ; MELODRAMA ; ACTION FILMS ; ADVENTURE FILMS ; BIOGRAPHICAL FILMS ; COMEDIES ; CRIME FILMS ; DETECTIVE FILMS ; EPIC FILMS ; FORMALISM ; FRONTIERS IN FILMS ; GANGSTER FILMS ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA ; HORROR FILMS ; MUSICALS ; USA ; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS ; SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS ; STUDIO SYSTEM ; THRILLERS ; WAR FILMS ; WESTERNS ; WOMEN, FILMS FOR ; WOMEN IN FILMS ; YOUNG PEOPLE IN FILMS ; YOUNG PEOPLE, FILMS FOR ; TODOROV, TZVETAN ; ALTMAN, ROBERT ; BASINGER, JEANINE ; DOHERTY, THOMAS ; SCHATZ, THOMAS Summary: "Steve Neale provides a comprehensive introduction to genre and Hollywood cinema. He discusses all the major concepts, theories and accounts of Hollywood and genre, an the key genres which theorists and critics have tended to write about - from musicals to horror films, from action-adventure to the western. He also offers detailed revisionist accounts of melodrama and 'film noir', and puts forward new arguments about the place and importance of genre in understanding Hollywood cinema." -- Taken from back cover.Notes: Includes bibliography and indexISBN: 0415026059 : No price; 0415026067(pbk.)LON: 21413450
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Subversive pleasures : Bakhtim, cultural criticism, and film / Robert Stam Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1989.
Call No: 620 BAK STAAuthor: Stam, Robert Place: BaltimorePublisher: John Hopkins University PressPubDate: 1989PhysDes: xiii, 274 pages ; 24 cm.Series: ParallaxSubject: 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: 0801845092Donation: Adrian MilesContents: 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
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Understanding Film Theory / Ruth Doughty and Christine Etherington-Wright [England]: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Call No: 62 DOUAuthor: Doughty, Ruth ; Etherington-Wright, Christine Edition: Second editionSource: UKPlace: [England]Publisher: Palgrave MacmillanPubDate: 2018PhysDes: xiv, 325 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmSubject: FILM ; THEORY ; AUTEUR THEORY ; ADAPTATIONS ; GENRES ; FORMALISM ; MOVEMENTS AND STYLES IN FILM HISTORY ; MOVEMENTS IN FILM HISTORY ; STRUCTURALISM ; MARXISM AND THE CINEMA ; REALISM IN FILMS ; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA ; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; MASCULINITY IN FILMS ; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA ; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS ; RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA ; POSTCOLONIALISM AND THE CINEMA ; TRANSNATIONAL CINEMA ; STARS ; AUDIENCE RESEARCH ; AUDIENCE RECEPTION ; HUNGER GAMES, THE (US, Gary Ross, 2012) ; RUN LOLA RUN (G, Tom Tykwer, 1998) ; LOLA RENNT (G, Tom Tykwer, 1998) ; ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (IT/FR, Sergio Leone, 1968)
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C`ERA UNA VOLTA IL WEST ; LEGO MOVIE, THE (US/AT/DK, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, 2014) ; ACT OF KILLING, THE (DK/NO/UK, Joshua Oppenheimer, (2012) ; MOULIN ROUGE (AT/US, Baz Luhrmann, 2001) ; OLDBOY (KO, Park Chan-wook, 2003) ; OLDEUBOI (KO, Park Chan-wook, 2003) ; FROZEN (US, Chris Buck & Jennifer Lee, 2013) ; BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR (FR/BE/SP, Abdellatif Kechiche, 2013) ; DJANGO UNCHAINED (US, Quentin Tarantino, 2012) ; AVATAR (US, James Cameron, 2009) Summary: -- "Film theory has a reputation for being challenging. Often requiring time and effort to fully grasp it and seeming rather old-fashioned, it can be difficult to approach the subject with enthusiasm and appreciate its relevance to modern day.
Understanding Film Theory aims to disassociate theory from these connotations and bring a fresh, contemporary and accessible approach to the discipline. Now comprehensively updated in a second edition, the book’s sixteen chapters - including a new chapter on Adaptations - continue to provide an insight into the main areas of debate. Taking the application of theory as its central theme, the text incorporates a number of innovative features: ‘Reflect and Respond’ sections encourage readers to engage critically with theoretical concepts, while seminal texts are concisely summarised without oversimplifying key points.
Throughout the book the authors illustrate why theory is important and demonstrate how it can be applied in a meaningful way, with relevant case studies drawn from both classic and contemporary cinema including: Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), Run Lola Run (1998), The Hunger Games (2012), Blue is the Warmest Colour (2013) and The Lego Movie (2014). Additional case studies address key genres (the British Gangster film and the musical), film movements (Dogme 95), individual actors (Ryan Gosling, Judi Dench and Amitabh Bachchan) and directors (Alfred Hitchcock and Guillermo del Toro).
Understanding Film Theory is an approachable and extensive introduction to film theory. It is the ideal entry point for any student studying film, using clear definitions and explaining complex ideas succinctly. " -- BOOK BACK COVERNotes: Includes index; Includes bibliographical references, filmography and indexISBN: 9781137528230Contents: -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Auteur Theory
Case study: Alfred Hitchcock -- Case study: Guillermo del Toro -- 2 Adaptations
Case study: The Hunger Games (Gary Ross, 2012) -- 3 Genre Theory -- Case study: The British Gangster Film -- Case study: The Musical -- 4 Formalism
Case study: Lola Rennt/Run Lola Run (Tom Tykwer, 1998) -- 5 Structuralism and Post-Structuralism -- Case study: Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968) -- 6 Marxism -- Case study: The Lego Movie (Phil Lord & Christopher Miller, 2014) -- 7 Realism -- Case study: Dogme 95 -- Case study: The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012) -- 8 Postmodernism -- Case study: Moulin Rouge! (Baz Luhrmann, 2001) -- 9 Psychoanalysis -- Case study: Oldboy (Chan-Wook Park, 2003) -- 10 Feminism -- Case study: Frozen (Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee, 2013) -- 11 Masculinity -- Case study: Ryan Gosling -- 12 Queer Theory -- Case study: Blue is the Warmest Colour (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2013) -- 13 Race and Ethnicity -- Case study: Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino, 2012) -- 14 Postcolonial and Transnational Cinemas -- Case study: Avatar (James Cameron, 2009) -- 15 Stars -- Case study: Amitabh Bachchan -- Case study: Dame Judi Dench -- 16 Audience -- Research and Reception -- Case study: Tartan Video -- Conclusion -- filmography -- Index --
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