Film And Theory - An Anthology

This book is a lively and provoking introduction to film theory. Suitable for students from any discipline, it is particularly aimed at those studying film and literature, providing a depth of reference not generally available outside the field of film studies.

Toby Miller is a Professor in the Cinema Studies Department at New York University. He is the author of a wide range of work in cultural studies, including two recent books, Technologies of Truth (1998) and (with Alec McHoul) Popular Culture and Everyday Life (1998). He is also co-editor of the journal Social Text and with Robert Stam co-editor of The Blackwell Companion to Film Studies.

Robert Stam is a Professor in the Cinema Studies Department at New York University. His many books include Film Theory: An Introduction (Blackwell Publishers, 1999); Tropical Multiculturalism: A Comparative History of Race in Brazilian Cinema and Culture (1997); Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media, with Ella Shohat (1994), which won the Katherine Singer Kovocs "Best Film Book Award"; and Subversive Pleasures: Bakhtin, Cultural Criticism, and Film (1992).

Introduction.

Part I: The Author.

Part II: Film Language: Introduction: Robert Stam.

Part III: The Image and Technology.

Part IV: Text and Intertext.

Part V: The Question of Realism.

Part VI: Alternative Aesthetics.

Part VII: The Historical Spectator/Audience.

Part VIII: Apparatus Theory.

Part IX: The Nature of the Gaze.

Part X: Class and the Culture Industries.

Part XI: Stars and Performance.

Part XII: Permutations of Difference.

Part XIII: The Postmodern and the Global.

Bibliography.

Index.