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 exhilarat...

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