Thinking in the Dark : : Cinema, Theory, Practice / / ed. by Murray Pomerance, R. Barton Palmer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Andrew, Dudley,; Blatter, Jeremy,; Brown, William,; Clayton, Alex,; Conley, Tom,; Corne, Jonah,; Gunning, Tom,; Hatch, Kristen,; Holmes, Nathan,; Keller, Sarah,; Lennard, Dominic,; Morgan, Daniel,; Palmer, R. Barton,; Perez, Gilberto,; Pomerance, Murray,; Rothman, William,; Rybin, Steven,; Scheibel, Will,; Solomon, Matthew,; Von Moltke, Johannes,; Williamson, Colin,; Woodward, Steven,
• TeilnehmendeR: Andrew, Dudley.; Blatter, Jeremy T.; Brown, William.; Clayton, Alex.; Conley, Tom.; Corne, Jonah.; Gunning, Tom.; Hatch, Kristen.; Holmes, Nathan.; Keller, Sarah.; Lennard, Dominic.; Moltke, Johannes von.; Morgan, Daniel.; Palmer, R. Barton.; Perez, Gilberto.; Pomerance, Murray.; Rothman, William.; Rybin, Steven.; Scheibel, Will.; Solomon, Matthew.; Williamson, Colin.; Woodward, Steven.
• HerausgeberIn: Palmer, R. Barton,; Pomerance, Murray,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 42 photographs

Today's film scholars draw from a dizzying range of theoretical perspectives-they're just as likely to cite philosopher Gilles Deleuze as they are to "e classic film theorist André Bazin. To students first encountering them, these theoretical lenses for viewing film can seem exhilarating, but also overwhelming. Thinking in the Dark introduces readers to twenty-one key theorists whose work has made a great impact on film scholarship today, including Rudolf Arnheim, Sergei Eisenstein, Michel Foucault, Siegfried Kracauer, and Judith Butler. Rather than just discussing each theorist's ideas in the abstract, the book shows how those concepts might be applied when interpreting specific films by including an analysis of both a classic film and a contemporary one. It thus demonstrates how theory can help us better appreciate films from all eras and genres: from Hugo to Vertigo, from City Lights to Sunset Blvd., and from Young Mr. Lincoln to A.I. and Wall-E. The volume's contributors are all experts on their chosen theorist's work and, furthermore, are skilled at explaining that thinker's key ideas and terms to readers who are not yet familiar with them. Thinking in the Dark is not only a valuable resource for teachers and students of film, it's also a fun read, one that teaches us all how to view familiar films through new eyes. Theorists examined in this volume are: Rudolf Arnheim, Béla Balázs, Roland Barthes, André Bazin, Walter Benjamin, Judith Butler, Stanley Cavell, Michel Chion, Gilles Deleuze, Jean Douchet, Sergei Eisenstein, Jean Epstein, Michel Foucault, Siegfried Kracauer, Jacques Lacan, Vachel Lindsay, Christian Metz, Hugo Münsterberg, V. F. Perkins, Jacques Rancière, and Jean Rouch.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Hugo Münsterberg: Psychologizing Spectatorship between Laboratory and Theater -- 2. Vachel Lindsay: Theory of Movie Hieroglyphics -- 3. Béla Balázs: Film Aesthetics and the Rituals of Romance -- 4. Siegfried Kracauer: The Politics of Film Theory and Criticism -- 5. Walter Benjamin: Afterimages of the Aura -- 6. Jean Epstein: Cinema's Encounter with Modern Life -- 7. Sergei Eisenstein: Attractions/Montage/Animation -- 8. Jacques Lacan: Giving All the Right Signs -- 9. Rudolf Arnheim: Cinema and Partial Illusion -- 10. Roland Barthes: What Films Show Us and What They Mean -- 11. Jean Rouch: The Camera as Provocateur -- 12. André Bazin: Dark Passage into the Mystery of Being -- 13. Gilles Deleuze: On Movement, Time, and Modernism -- 14. Stanley Cavell: The Contingencies of Film and Its Theory -- 15. Michel Foucault: Murmur and Meditation -- 16. Jean Douchet: La Politique Hitchcockienne -- 17. Christian Metz: Dreaming a Language in Cinema -- 18. V. F. Perkins: Aesthetic Suspense -- 19. Jacques Rancière: Equality and Aesthetics -- 20. Michel Chion: Listening to Cinema -- 21. Judith Butler: Sex, Gender, and Subject Formation -- Works Cited -- Notes on Contributors -- Index