Film and Theory An Anthology [Paperback]

Introduction.

Part I: The Author:.

Introduction: Robert Stam.

1. Dennis Potter and the Question of the Television Author: Rosalind Coward.

2. To Desire Differently: Feminism and the French Cinema (extract): Sandy Flitterman-Lewis.

3. The Unauthorized Auteur Today: Dudley Andrew.

Part II: Film Language: Introduction: Robert Stam.

4. The Specificity of Media in the Arts: Noel Carroll.

5. For a Semio-Pragmatics of Film: Roger Odin.

6. The Scene of the Screen: Envisioning Cinematic and Electronic 'Presence': Vivian Sobchack.

Part III: The Image and Technology:.

Introduction: Toby Miller.

7. Necessities and Constraints: A Pattern of Technological Change: Brian Winston.

8. Projections of Sound on Image: Michel Chion.

9. Modes of Production: The TV Apparatus: John T. Caldwell.

Part IV: Text and Intertext:.

Introduction: Robert Stam.

10. Questions of Genre: Steve Neale.

11. A Semantic/Syntactic Approach to Film Genre: Rick Altman.

12. The 'Force-Field' of Melodrama: Stuart Cunningham.

13. Film Bodies: Gender, Genre and Excess: Linda Williams.

Part V: The Question of Realism:.

Introduction: Robert Stam.

14. The Cinema of Attraction: Early Film, Its Spectator and the Avant-Garde: Tom Gunning.

15. Classical Hollywood Cinema: Narrational Principles and Procedures: David Bordwell.

16. Black American Cinema: The New Realism: Manthia Diawara.

Part VI: Alternative Aesthl