Synopses & Reviews
The fourth edition of this classic resource is updated to illustrate the most recent approaches in film theory, including semiotic and structuralist imperatives, Marxist historical and Freudian psychoanalytic analysis, and feminist and deconstructionist views, and each section has been revised to show the impact of new thinking on matters such as film language, the film medium, and the film artist. More than half of the contents are new, providing a broad survey of thinking about film over the past eight decades. A comprehensive text for students of film, it is also an invaluable resource for courses in semiotics and modern culture and media.
Table of Contents
I. Film and Reality
SIEGFRIED KRACAUER: From Theory of Film: Basic Concepts
SIEGFRIED KRACAUER: From From Caligari to Hitler. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
ANDRE BAZIN: From What is Cinema?: The Myth of Total Cinema
ANDRE BAZIN: From What is Cinema?: De Sica; Metteur-en-scene
RUDOLF ARNHEIM: From Film as Art: The Complete Film
V.F. PERKINS: From Film as Film: Form and Discipline
MAYA DEREN: Cinematography: The Creative Use of Reality
STAN BRAKHAGE: From Metaphors on Vision
COLIN MCCABE: Theory and Film: Principles of Realism and Pleasure
CHRISTINE GLEDHILL: Recent Developments in Feminist Criticism
II. Film Language
VSEVOLOD PUDOVKIN: From Film Technique: [On Editing]
SERGEI EISENSTEIN: From Film Form: The Cinematographic Principle and the Ideogram; A Dialectic Approach to Film Form
ANDRE BAZIN: From What is Cinema?: The Evolution of the Language of Cinema
CHRISTIAN METZ: From Film