This is an expanded and updated edition of an introduction to film aesthetics. In addition to extracts from the writings of film theorists, there are pieces on genre, narrative, feminism, psychoanalysis and the cultural impact of film.
Since publication of the first edition in 1974, lm Theory and Criticism has been the standard anthology of critical writing about film. The sixth edition continues to highlight both classic and cutting edge essays from more than a century of thought and writing, with contributors ranging from Sergei Eisenstein and Vsevolod Pudovkin to the latest scholars writing on the impact of digital technology on the film industry; recent considerations of issues such as the sociological, psychological and philosophical dimensions of film; and controversial areas such as gender and race.
Preface; I. FILM LANGUAGE; VSEVOLOD PUDOVKIN, from Film Technique; [On Editing]; SERGEI EISENSTEIN, from Film Form; Beyond the Shot [The Cinematographic Principle and the Ideogram]; The Dramaturgy of Film Form [The Dialectical Approach to Film Form]; ANDR
Since publication of the first edition in 1974, lm Theory and Criticism has been the standard anthology of critical writing about film. The sixth edition continues to highlight both classic and cutting edge essays from more than a century of thought and writing, with contributors ranging from Sergei Eisenstein and Vsevolod Pudovkin to the latest scholars writing on the impact of digital technology on the film industry; recent considerations of issues such as the sociological, psychological and philosophical dimensions of film; and controversial areas such as gender and race.
Preface; I. FILM LANGUAGE; VSEVOLOD PUDOVKIN, from Film Technique; [On Editing]; SERGEI EISENSTEIN, from Film Form; Beyond the Shot [The Cinematographic Principle and the Ideogram]; The Dramaturgy of Film Form [The Dialectical Approach to Film Form]; ANDR