Robert Stam (New York University)

Film Theory

An Introduction
Herausgegeben von Stam, Robert; Miller, Toby

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This work is an introduction to film theory, suitable for students from any discipline but particularly aimed at those studying film and literature as it examines issues common to both subjects such as realism, illusionism, narration, style and semiotics and also includes theorists common to both.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• 1999.
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 555g
• ISBN-13: 9780631206545
• ISBN-10: 063120654X
• Artikelnr.: 13581737

Autorenporträt

Robert Stam is Professor in the Cinema Studies Department at New York University. His many books include Film Theory: An Introduction (Blackwell Publishers, 1999), Tropical Multiculturalism: A Comparative History of Race in Brazilian Cinema and Culture (1997), Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media with Ella Shohat (1994), which won the Katherine Singer Kovocs 'Best Film Book Award'; and Subversive Pleasures: Bakhtin, Cultural Criticism, and Film (1992).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.

Introduction.

1. The Antecedents of Film Theory.

2. Russian Formalism.

3. The Question of Film Language.

4. The Presence of Brecht.

5. The Poststructuralist Mutation.

6. The Rise of Cultural Studies.

7. The Coming Out of Queer Theory.

8. Third World Cinema Revisited.

9. The Politics of Postmodernism.

10. Post Cinema: Digital Theory and the New Media.

Index.

Rezensionen

"A remarkable synthesis, recommended to anyone who wants to understand the questions and debates that have animated film theory in the twentieth century. Throughout, Stam's discussion is lucid, generous, and intelligent." James Naremore, Indiana University