Film theory : an introduction through the senses /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2015
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| Edition: | 2nd edition |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : film theory, cinema, the body and the senses
- Cinema as window and frame
- Cinema as door : screen and threshold
- Cinema as mirror : face and close-up
- Cinema as eye : look and gaze
- Cinema as skin : body and touch
- Cinema as ear : acoustics and space
- Cinema as brain : mind and body
- Digital cinema and film theory : the body digital
- note: 1 Cinema as Window and Frame
- Rear Window
- Constructivism
- Realism
- Open and Closed Film Forms (Leo Braudy)
- Classical Cinema
- Central Perspective
- Rudolf Arnheim
- Sergei Eisenstein
- Andre Bazin
- David Bordwell
- Cinema as Shop Window and Display
- 2. Cinema as Door
- - Screen and Threshold
- searchers
- Entry into the Film
- Etymology of Screen'
- Thresholds of the Cinema
- Beginnings: Credits and Credit Sequences
- Neoformalism (Bordwell/Thompson)
- Poststructuralism (Thierry Kuntzel)
- Mikhail Bakhtin
- Door and Screen as Filmic Motifs in Buster Keaton and Woody Allen
- 3. Cinema as Mirror
- - Face and Close-Up
- Persona
- Bela Balazs
- Close- Up and Face
- Face as Mirror of the Unconscious
- Christian Metz
- Jean-Louis Baudry
- Apparatus Theory
- Early Cinema and the Close-Up (Tom Gunning)
- Reflexive Doubling in Modern (Art) Cinema
- Mirror Neurons
- Paradoxes of the Mirror
- 4. Cinema as Eye
- - Look and Gaze
- Blade runner
- Active and Passive Eye
- Mobile Eye of Early Cinema
- Dziga Vertov
- Apparatus- Theory
- Suture
- Continuity Editing
- Laura Mulvey - Feminist Film Theories
- Silence of the Lambs - Historicity of Modes of Perception
- Regimes of the Gaze
- `Big Other' (Jacques Lacan)
- Slavoj Zizek
- Panoptic Gaze (Michel Foucault)
- Niklas Luhmann and Self-Monitoring
- 5. Cinema as Skin
- - Body and Touch
- Gravity
- (Re)turn to the Body
- Critique of `Oocularcentrism'
- Phenomenology, Synaesthesia, Intermodality
- Vivian Sobchack
- Avant-Garde Practices
- Body and Genre (Linda Williams, Barbara Creed)
- Haptic Perception and Skin of Film (Laura Marks)
- Crash
- Skin and Identity
- New World
- Accented Cinema (Hamid Naficy)
- Ethnographic Filmmaking
- Siegfried Kracauer
- 6. Cinema as Ear
- - Acoustics and Space
- Her
- Multisensory Address
- Sound as a Spatial Phenomenon
- Silent Cinema
- Introduction of Sound
- Singin' in the Rain
- Sound in Classical Cinema
- On-Screen/Off-Screen
- Polysemy of Sound
- Acousmetre (Michel Chion)
- Sound and Psychoanalysis
- Reversals in Hierarchy of Image and Sound
- Surround Sound
- Materiality and Plasticity
- 7. Cinema as Brain
- - Mind and Body
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Propaganda and Cult Films
- Five Concepts for Connecting Mind and Cinema
- Gilles Deleuze: Movement- Image and Time-Image
- Annette Michelson: Cinema as Epistemology
- Torben Grodal
- Patricia Pisters: Neuro-Image
- Mind and Body, Spectator and Film
- Empathy
- Embodiment and Disembodied Vision
- 8. Digital Cinema and Film Theory
- - The Body Digital
- Toy Story
- Hybridity and Embedded Contradictions
- Lev Manovich and Sean Cubitt
- Virtual Reality, Media Convergence
- Indexicality
- Morphing and the Malleability of the Digital
- Media Archaeology and Remediation
- `Change Inside-Out'
- Video Essays
- Monsters, Inc.
- Fan Labour
- Public/Private
- Documentary and the Digital
- Things and Materiality
- Agency.