Post-Theory: Reconstructing Film Studies

by David Bordwell

Book Overview

With Post-Theory, David Bordwell and No l Carroll challenge the prevailing practices of film scholarship. Since the 1970s, film scholars have been searching for a unified theory that will explain all sorts of films, their production, and their reception; the field has been dominated by structuralist Marxism, varieties of cultural theory, and the psychoanalytic ideas of Freud and Lacan. Bordwell and Carroll ask, why not employ many theories...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299149404
• ISBN13: 9780299149406
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 582 Pages
• Weight: 2.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.4"