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Thinking in the Dark: Cinema, Theory, Practice
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Description for Thinking in the Dark: Cinema, Theory, Practice
Hardcover. Editor(s): Pomerance, Murray; Palmer, R. Barton. Num Pages: 288 pages, 42 photographs. BIC Classification: APFA; DSA; JFC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 825.
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 quote 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 ... Read more
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 quote 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813566290
SKU
V9780813566290
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About
MURRAY POMERANCE is an independent film scholar in Toronto, Canada. Among his many books are The Eyes Have It: Cinema and the Reality Effect (Rutgers University Press), Marnie, and Alfred Hitchcock’s America. R. BARTON PALMER is the Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature and the director of film studies at Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina. The author, editor, or general ... Read more
Reviews for Thinking in the Dark: Cinema, Theory, Practice
“In lucid and insightful essays, prominent film scholars discuss a major film or cultural theorist and apply the theory to cinematic texts. Refreshingly, the choice of films considered veers away from the most obvious to those that are excitingly offbeat.”
Lucy Fischer
Distinguished Professor, University of Pittsburgh
“In lucid and insightful essays, prominent film scholars discuss a ... Read more
Lucy Fischer
Distinguished Professor, University of Pittsburgh
“In lucid and insightful essays, prominent film scholars discuss a ... Read more