Reinventing film studies

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Other Authors: Williams, Linda 1946-, Gledhill, Christine
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Published: London New York Arnold Co-published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 2000
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Table of Contents:
  • How films mean, or, from aesthetics to semiotics and half-way back again / Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
  • Why theory? / Gill Brannston
  • Film theory and the revolt against master narratives / Bill Nichols
  • Case study : interpreting Singin' in the rain / Steven Cohan
  • Who (and what) is it for? / Tessa Perkins
  • Dream/Factory / Jane M. Gaines
  • The publicness of cinema / James Donald and Stephanie Hemelryk Donald
  • The politics of cultural address in a 'transitional' cinema : a case study of Indian polular cinema / Ravi S. Vasudevan
  • Reception theory and audience research : the mystery of the vampire's kiss / Henry Jenkins
  • Re-examing stardom : questions of texts, bodies and performance / Christine Geraghty
  • After the classic, the classical and ideology : the differences of realism / Christopher Williams
  • Rethinking genre / Christine Gledhill
  • Judging audinces : the case of the trial movie / Carol J. Clover
  • Introducing film evaluation / Noèel Carroll
  • 'Style', posture and idiom : Tarantino's figures of masculinity / Sharon Willis
  • What is film history?, or, the riddle of the sphinxes / Vivian sobchack
  • 'Animated pictures': tales of cinema's forgotten future, after 100 years of films / Tom Gunning
  • The mass production of the senses : classical cinema as vernacular modernism / Miriam Bratu Hansen
  • Discipline and fun : Psycho and postmodern cinema / Linda Williams
  • Film theory and spectatorship in the age of the 'posts' / Robert Stam and Ella Habiba Shohat
  • Digging an old well : the labor of social fantasy in a contemporary Chinese film / Rey Chow
  • Facing up to Hollywood / Ana M. Lâopez
  • The end of cinema : multimedia and technological change / Anne Friedberg