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Film Theory: Creating a Cinematic Grammar
Felicity Colman
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Description for Film Theory: Creating a Cinematic Grammar
Paperback. Series: Short Cuts. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 201 x 151 x 9. Weight in Grams: 216.
Film Theory addresses the core concepts and arguments created or used by academics, critical film theorists, and filmmakers, including the work of Dudley Andrew, Raymond Bellour, Mary Ann Doane, Miriam Hansen, bell hooks, Siegfried Kracauer, Raul Ruiz, P. Adams Sitney, Bernard Stiegler, and Pier Paolo Pasolini. This volume takes the position that film theory is a form of writing that produces a unique cinematic grammar; and like all grammars, it forms part of the system of rules that govern a language, and is thus applicable to wider range of media forms. In their creation of authorial trends, identification of the ... Read more
Film Theory addresses the core concepts and arguments created or used by academics, critical film theorists, and filmmakers, including the work of Dudley Andrew, Raymond Bellour, Mary Ann Doane, Miriam Hansen, bell hooks, Siegfried Kracauer, Raul Ruiz, P. Adams Sitney, Bernard Stiegler, and Pier Paolo Pasolini. This volume takes the position that film theory is a form of writing that produces a unique cinematic grammar; and like all grammars, it forms part of the system of rules that govern a language, and is thus applicable to wider range of media forms. In their creation of authorial trends, identification of the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Short Cuts
Condition
New
Weight
216g
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231169738
SKU
V9780231169738
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About Felicity Colman
Felicity Colman is reader in screen media at the Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. She is the author of Deleuze and Cinema: The Film Concepts (2011) and the editor of Film, Theory and Philosophy: The Key Thinkers (2009).
Reviews for Film Theory: Creating a Cinematic Grammar
Succint yet detailed, comprehensive, engaging and entertaining, this volume astutely charts the importance and continuing relevance of theory for film studies. It is also polemical and original insofar as it debunks a range of misconceptions relating to film theory, while also offering insights into challenging new theoretical domains.
Richard Rushton, Lancaster University In her concise but also unconventional account ... Read more
Richard Rushton, Lancaster University In her concise but also unconventional account ... Read more