Toward a New Film Aesthetic

by Bruce Isaacs

Book Overview

Film and theory have always gone hand in hand. In many ways, the professional academic study of cinema grew out of the revolutionary surges in literary and cultural theory in Europe. Since the 1970s, film theory has predominantly been a lens through which to wage philosophical and cultural war (in increasingly abstract terms), and cinema was in the right place at the right time. Toward a New Film Aesthetic argues that such an approach to film studies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826428711
• ISBN13: 9780826428714
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.0"