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Subject(s)

• Motion pictures—Philosophy [Browse]

Editor

• Stevens, Kyle [Browse]

Series

Oxford handbooks [More in this series]

Summary note

'The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory' narrows in on the subject of film, not with a nostalgic sensibility, but with the recognition that what constitutes a film is historically contingent and in dialogue with the vicissitudes of entertainment, art, and empire. Essays topics include (but are not limited to) audiovisuality, silent cinema, psychoanalytic film theory, affect theory, critical race theory, and the male gaze.

Notes

Also issued in print: 2022.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Target audience

Specialized.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 21, 2022).

Contents

• A Machine for Killing Time / Tom Gunning
• Buddhism and Film Theory: Beyond a Legacy / Victor Fan
• Film Theory as Ideology Critique (after Trump) / Nico Baumbach
• In Defense of Psychoanalytic Film Theory / Damon Ross Young
• In Other Words: Film and the Spider Web of Description / Timothy Corrigan
• Women's Hands and the Cinematic Cut: The Work of Montage in Man With a Movie Camera, Klute, and The Piano / David A. Gerstner
• Standing Up Too Close or Back Too Far? A Slanted History of Close Film Analysis / Adrian Martin
• Notes on Some Forms of Repetition / Homay King
• Interested and Disinterested Judgments: Film and Theory and the Valences of the Aesthetics / Daniel Morgan
• On Fire: When Fashion Meets Cinema / Marketa Uhlirova
• The Audio-Visual Non-relation and the Digital Break / Luka Arsenjuk
• The composer of musique concrète wields a camera / Michel Chion
• Documentary Listening Habits: From Voice to Audibility / Pooja Rangan
• Audiovisual Rhythm and its Spectator: Moonlight as Example / Rick Warner
• Contesting the White Gaze: Black Film and Post-Cinematic Spectatorship / Caetlin Benson-Allott
• Moral Philosophy and the Moving Images / Brian Price
• Lesbian Photographers: Affect and Cinematic Self-Discovery / Marta Figlerowicz
• An Invention Without a Future?: On the Importance of the Collective Cinema Experience / Julian Hanich
• Feminist Film Theory on the Brink of Laughter / Maggie Hennefeld
• Cinematic Experience: From Moving Images to Virtual Reality / Robert Sinnerbrink
• The Many Bodies of the Dancer-Actress: Towards A Kinesics of Film Acting / Usha Iyer
• The Medium Matters! In Defense of Medium-Specificity in Classical Film Theory / Malcolm Turvey
• Introduction: The Very Thought of Theory / Kyle Stevens
• FILM | VIDEO | ESSAY / Domietta Torlasco
• Film Theory and Machine Vision / Antonio Somaini
• Headphones, Cinematic Listening, and the Frame of the Skull / Kyle Stevens
• The Affective Turnabout's Fair Play / Sarah Keller
• On the Impersonality of Experience: Psychoanalysis, Interiority, and the Turn to Affect / Scott C. Richmond
• When and Where Does a Film Begin? Putting Films in Context / Amy Villarejo
• Those Who Have: The Impersonality of Film Theory / John David Rhodes
• Theory for the Masses
• or, Toward a Vernacular Criticism / Noah Isenberg
• / Kara Keeling
• Empiricism and Film Theory: On the Moviola's Political Ontology / Davide Panagia.

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Other title(s)

• Handbook of film theory
• Film theory

ISBN

9780190873950 (ebook)

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