Part 1: Film Language
1. Vsevolod Pudovkin from Film Technique
- [On Editing]
2. Sergei Eisenstein from Film Form
- Beyond the Shot [The Cinematographic Principle and the Ideogram]
- The Dramaturgy of Film Form [A Dialectic Approach to Film Form]
3. André Bazin from
What is Cinema?
- The Evolution of the Language of Cinema
4. Christian Metz from Film Language
- Some Points in the Semiotics of Cinema
5. Gilbert Harman
- Semiotics and the Cinema: Metz and Wollen
6. Stephen Prince
- The Discourse of Pictures: Iconicity and Film
Studies
7. Daniel Dayan
- The Tutor-Code of Classical Cinema
8. William Rothman
- Against "The System of Suture"
Part 2: Film and Reality
1. Siegfried Kracauer from Theory of Film
- Basic Concepts
2. André Bazin from What is Cinema?
- The Ontology of the
Photographic Image
- The Myth of Total Cinema
- De Sica: Metteur-en-scene
3. Rudolf Arnheim from Film As Art
- The Complete Film
4. Jean-Louis Baudry
- The Apparatus: Metapsychological Approaches to the Impression of Reality in Cinema
5. Noel Carroll from Mystifying
Movies
- Jean-Louis Baudry and "The Apparatus"
Part 3: The Film Medium: Image
1. Siegfried Kracauer from Theory of Film
- The Establishment of Physical Existence
2. Béla Balász from Theory of the Film
- The Close-up
- The Face of Man
3. Rudolf Arnheim from Film
as Art
- Film and Reality
- The Making of a Film
4. Jean-Louis Baudry
- Ideological Effects of the Basic Cinematic Apparatus
5. Noel Carroll
- Defining the Moving Image
6. D. N. Rodowick
- Elegy for Film
Part 4: The Film Medium: Sound NEW
1. 1. Sergei
Eisenstein, Vsevelod Pudovkin, and Grigori Alexandrov
Statement on Sound
2. Christian Metz
- Aural Objects
3. Mary Ann Doane
- The Voice in the Cinema: The Articulation of Body and Space
4. Michel Chion from The Voice in Cinema
5. John Belton
- Technology and
Aesthetics of Film Sound
6. Rick Altman from Sound Theory/Sound Practice
Part 5: Film Narrative and the Other Arts
1. André Bazin from What is Cinema?
- Theater and Cinema
2. Leo Braudy from The World in a Frame
- Acting: Stage vs. Screen
3. Dudley Andrew from
Concepts in Film Theory
- Adaptation
4. Tom Gunning from D.W.Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film
- Narrative Discourse and the Narrator System
5. Jerrold Levinson
- Film Music and Narrative Agency
6. Peter Wollen
- Godard and Counter Cinema: Vent
d'est
7. Carl Plantinga
- Notes on Spectator Emotion and Ideological Film Criticism
Part 6: The Film Artist
1. Andrew Sarris
- Notes on the Auteur Theory in 1962
2. Peter Wollen from Signs and Meaning in the Cinema
- The Auteur Theory [Howard Hawks and John
Ford]
3. Roland Barthes
- The Face of Garbo
4. Molly Haskell from Reverence to Rape
- Female Stars of the 1940s
5. Gilberto Perez from The Material Ghost [On Keaton and Chaplin]
6. Richard Dyer from Stars
7. Thomas Schatz from The Genius of the System
- The Whole
Equation of Pictures
8. Jerome Christensen from America's Corporate Art: The Studio Authorship of Hollywood Motion Pictures
Part 7: Film Genres
1. Leo Braudy from The World in a Frame
- Genre: The Conventions of Connection
2. Rick Altman from Film/Genre
- A
Semantic/Syntactic/Pragmatic Approach to Genre
- Conclusion: A Semantic/Syntactic/Pragmatic Approach to Genre
3. Paul Schrader
- Notes on Film Noir
4. Robin Wood
- Ideology, Genre, Auteur
5. Linda Williams
- Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess
6. Carol Clover from
Men, Women, and Chainsaws
7. Cynthia A. Freeland
- Feminist Frameworks for Horror Films
8. David Bordwell
- The Art Cinema as a Mode of Film Practice
Part 8: Film: Spectator and Audience
1. Jean Comolli and Jean Narboni
- Cinema/Ideology/Criticism
2. Christian
Metz from The Imaginary Signifier
- Identification, Mirror
- The Passion for Perceiving
- Fetichism, Disavowal
3. Laura Mulvey
- Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
4. Tania Modleski from The Women Who Knew Too Much: Hitchcock and Feminist Theory
- The Master's
Dollhouse: Rear Window
5. Tom Gunning
- An Aesthetic of Astonishment: Early Film and the (In)Credulous Spectator
6. Richard Dyer from White
- Lighting for Whiteness
7. Manthia Diawara
- Black Spectatorship: Problems of Identification and Resistance
8. Bell Hooks
- The
Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators
9. Leilani Nishime
- The Mulatto Cyborg: Imaging a Multiracial Future
Part 9: Digitization
1. Lev Manovich from The Language of New Media
- Synthetic Realism and Its Discontents
- The Synthetic Image and Its Subject
-
Digital Cinema and the History of a Moving Image
2. Philip Rosen from Change Mummified
3. John Belton
- The World in the Palm of Your Hand: Agnes Varda, Trinh T. Minh-ha, and the Digital Documentary
4. Kristen Whissel
- The Digital Multitude
5. Kristen Daly
- Cinema 3.0:
The Interactive-Image
6. Henry Jenkins
- Quentin Tarantino's Star Wars? Digital Cinema, Media Convergence, and Participatory Culture
Part 10: Globalization
1. Dudley Andrew
- Time Zones and Jetlag: The Flows and Phases of World Cinema
2. Ella Shohat and Robert Stam
from Unthinking
- Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media
3. Stephen Crofts
- Reconceptualizing National Cinema/s
4. Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto
- The Difficulty of Being Radical: The Discipline of Film Studies and the Postcolonial World Order
5. Rey Chow
- Film and Cultural
Identity
6. Yingjin Zhang
- Chinese Cinema and Transnational Film Studies
7. Wimal Dissanayake
- Issues in World Cinema
Index
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Leo Braudy is University Professor and Leo S. Bing Chair in English and American Literature and Professor of English, Art History and History. Among other books, he is author of Native Informant: Essays on Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture, The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History, and
most recently, From Chivalry to Terrorism: War and the Changing Nature of Masculinity.
Marshall Cohen is University Professor Emeritus and Dean Emeritus of the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences at the University of Southern California. He is coeditor, with Roger Copeland, of What Is
Dance? Readings in Theory and Criticism, and founding editor of Philosophy and Public Affairs.
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