Defining cinema
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Defining cinema
（Rutgers depth of field series）
Rutgers University Press, c1997
- : pbk
Available at 4 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Defining Cinema is the first book to bring together leading theorists and scholars to discuss the importance of film theory to cinema studies. Peter Lehman introduces the volume by explaining what constitutes film theory and outlining the major positions within the field by placing these five theorists and their work within a historical perspective. Andre Bazin and Siegfried Kracauer represent realist film theories, and Sergei Eisenstein represents a formalist position. Noel Burch and Christian Metz are contemporary theorists who have moved beyond the classical realist-formalist opposition. Burch's theory encompasses films and styles praised by both Bazin and Eisenstein, and Metz helped bring semiotics and psychoanalytic theory to prominence in the field.
Table of Contents
Introduction: what is film theory? / Peter Lehman
The montage of film attractions / Sergei M. Eisenstein
Eisenstein and Soviet cinema / Vance Kepley Jr
The evolution of the language of cinema / Andre Bazin
Andre Bazin's "Evolution" / Dudley Andrew
Basic concepts / Siegfried Kracauer
Kracauer's theory of film / Noe l Carroll
"Spatial and temporal articulations" and "Editing as a plastic art" Noe l Burch
To zero and beyond : Noe l Burch's Theory of film practice / Edward Branigan
"Identification, mirror" and "The passion for perceiving" / Christian Metz
Christian Metz / Robert T. Eberwein
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