| Film Theory Contributor(s): Stam (Author) |
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ISBN: 063120654X ISBN-13: 9780631206545 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons OUR PRICE: $65.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2000 Annotation: This book is a lively and provoking introduction to film theory. It is suitable for students from any discipline but is particularly aimed at students studying film and literature as it examines issues common to both subjects such as realism, illusionism, narration, point of view, style, semiotics, psychoanalysis and multiculturalism. It also includes coverage of theorists common to both, Barthes, Lacan and Bakhtin among others. Robert Stam, renowned for his clarity of writing, will also include studies of cinema specialists providing readers with a depth of reference not generally available outside the field of film studies itself. Other material covered includes film adaptations of works of literature and analogies between literary and film criticism. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism |
| Dewey: 791.430 |
| LCCN: 99025285 |
| Physical Information: 0.86" H x 6.02" W x 9.05" (1.19 lbs) 400 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Providing a collection of some of the most provocative and influential writings of film theory in the past thirty years, this anthology aims to provide a polylogue among theorists, deprovincializing the subject. Film Theory multiplies the perspectives and positions, the situations and locations, from which film theory is spoken. |