Screen LibraryThe Oxford handbook of film theory /
"Despite changes in the media landscape, film remains a vital force in contemporary culture, as do our ideas of what "a movie" or "the cinematic" are. Indeed, we might say that the category of film now only exists in theory. Whereas film-theoretical discussion at the turn of...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2022] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"Despite changes in the media landscape, film remains a vital force in contemporary culture, as do our ideas of what "a movie" or "the cinematic" are. Indeed, we might say that the category of film now only exists in theory. Whereas film-theoretical discussion at the turn of the 21st century was preoccupied, understandably, by digital technology's permeation of virtually all aspects of the film object, this volume moves the conversation away from a focus on film's materiality towards timely questions concerning the ethics, politics, and even aesthetics of thinking about the medium of cinema. To put it another way, this collection narrows in on the subject of film, not with a nostalgic sensibility, but with the recognition that what constitutes a film is historically contingent, in dialogue with the vicissitudes of entertainment, art, and empire. The volume is divided into six sections: Meta-Theory; Film Theory's Project of Emancipation; Apparatus and Perception; Audiovisuality; How Close is Close Reading?; and The Turn to Experience." -- |
| Carrier Form: | xii, 695 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9780190873929 0190873922 |
| Index Number: | PN1995 |
| CLC: | J90-02 |
| Call Number: | J90-02/O984 |
| Contents: | Introduction: The very thought of theory / Kyle Stevens -- A machine for killing time / Tom Gunning -- Interested and disinterested judgments : film theory and the valences of the aesthetic / Daniel Morgan -- Moral philosophy and the moving image / Brian Price -- Film/video/essay / Domietta Torlasco -- The medium matters! In defense of medium-specificity in classical film theory / Malcolm Turvey -- In defense of psychoanalytic film theory / Damon R. Young -- Film theory as ideology critique (after Trump) / Nico Baumbach -- Buddhism and film theory : beyond a legacy / Victor Fan -- Feminist film theory on the brink of laughter / Maggie Hennefeld -- Theory for the masses; or, toward a vernacular criticism / Noah Isenberg -- "The fold of old wounds" : Daughters of the dust, Eve's bayou, and Mississippi damned as cinematic Black feminist theory / Kara Keeling -- Lesbian photographers : affect and cinematic self-discovery / Marta Figlerowicz -- Notes on some forms of repetition / Homay King -- Empiricism and film theory : on the Moviola's political ontology / Davide Panagia -- Film theory and machine vision / Antonio Somaini -- Headphones, cinematic listening, and the frame of the skull / Kyle Stevens -- The audio-visual non-relation and the digital break / Luka Arsenjuk -- The composer of musique concrète wields a camera / Michel Chion ; translated by Claudia Gorbman -- The many bodies of the dancer-actress : towards a kinesics of film acting / Usha Iyer -- Documentary listening habits : from voice to audibility / Pooja Rangan -- Audiovisual rhythm and its spectator : moonlight as example / Rick Warner -- Contesting the white gaze : Black film and post-cinematic spectatorship / Caetlin Benson-Allott -- In other words : film and the spider web of description / Timothy Corrigan -- Women's hands and the cinematic cut : the work of montage in Man with a movie camera, Klute, and The piano / David Gerstner -- Standing up too close or back too far? A slanted history of close film analysis / Adrian Martin -- On fire : when fashion meets cinema / Marketa Uhlirova -- When and where does a film begin? Putting films in context / Amy Villarejo -- The affective turnabout's fair play / Sarah Keller -- An invention with a future : collective viewing, joint deep attention, and the ongoing value of the cinema / Julian Hanich -- Those who have : the impersonality of film theory / John David Rhodes -- On the impersonality of experience : psychoanalysis, interiority, and the turn to affect / Scott Richmond -- Cinematic experience : from moving images to virtual reality / Robert Sinnerbrink. |