Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings, Fourth Edition

By Gerald; Marshall Cohen and Leo Braudy (eds.) Mast

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• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: B00S26C8P4
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.

Customer Reviews

It may add a new dimension to the films we watch.

Each edition of the book has a different list of films, so if you are looking for a particular film, you may want to peruse the book in person, as the table of contents goes by article, not film title. However, the basic nature of the book stays the same from one edition to the next. Talk about looking at clouds from both sides now, here is a shortlist of what is covered. Theory of film What is Cinema? Film as art Film as film The creative use of reality Metaphors on vision Film technique Film form The evolution of language and Cinema CinemaScope: before and after Christian Metz and semiology in the cinema The Contribution of film to semiotics Style and medium The establishment of physical existence The making of the film The world viewed Basic film aesthetics The film: a psychological study Theater and cinema From Dickens, Griffith, and the film today From novels to film Narration and narrativity in film The world in the frame The imagination of disaster The mummy’s pool Comedy’s greatest era Signs in meaning in cinema Howard Hawks, Storyteller Man with the camera. The face of Garbo Technology and ideology, and cinema Film and visual pleasure