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1. Introduction: Toby Miller. <p>2. Authorship: James Naremore.</p> <p>3. Genre: Sarah Berry.</p> <p>4. Enunciation and Narration: André Gaudreault and François Jost.</p> <p>5. Film Editing: Lucy Fischer.</p> <p>6. Film Semiotics: Warren Buckland.</p> <p>7. Cognitivism: Greg Currie.</p> <p>8. Psychoanalysis: Richard Allen.</p> <p>9. Spectatorship and Subjectivity: E. Deidre Pribram.</p> <p>10. Laura Mulvey Meets Cathrine Tramell Meets the She-Man: Counter-History, Reclamation, and Incongruity in Lesbian, Gay, and Queer Film and Media Criticism: Julia Erhart.</p> <p>11. Is There Class in this Text?: The Repression of Class in Film and Cultural Studies : David James.</p> <p>12. Culture Industries: Douglas Kellner.</p> <p>13. The Political Economy of Film: Janet Wasko.</p> <p>14. The Work of Theory in the Age of Digital Transformation: Henry Jenkins.</p> <p>15. Cultural Exchange: Tom O'Regan.</p> <p>16. Anthropology for the World: Mass Media: Faye Ginsburg.</p> <p>17. Psycho's Bad Timing: The Sensual Obsessions of Film Theory: Toby Miller.</p> <p>18. Historical Allegory: Ismail Xavier.</p> <p>19. Every Picture Tells a Story: José Guadalupe Posada's Photocinematic Graphic Art: Charles Ramirez Berg.</p> <p>20. On "Historical Poetics," Narrative, and Interpretation: Ira Bhaskar.</p> <p>Index.</p>

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<b>Toby Miller</b> is Professor in the Cinema Studies Department at New York University. He is the author or editor of a wide range of work in cultural studies, including <i>A Companion to Cultural Studies</i> (Ed. Blackwell Publishing, 2001), <i>Technologies of Truth</i> (1998) and (with Alec McHoul) <i>Popular Culture and Everyday Life</i> (1998). He is also co-editor of the journal <i>Social Text</i> and (with Robert Stam) co-editor of <i>Film and Theory: An Anthology</i> (Blackwell Publishing, 2000). <br /> <p> <b>Robert Stam</b> is Professor in the Cinema Studies Department at New York University. His many books include <i>Film Theory: An Introduction</i> (Blackwell Publishing, 1999); <i>Tropical Multiculturalism: A Comparative History of Race in Brazilian Cinema and Culture</i> (1997); <i>Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media</i>, with Ella Shohat (1994), which won the Katherine Singer Kovocs “Best Film Book Award”; and <i>Subversive Pleasures: Bakhtin, Cultural Criticism, and Film</i> (1992). He is also co-editor (with Toby Miller) of <i>Film and Theory: An Anthology</i> (Blackwell Publishing, 2000).</p>

<p>This volume of specially commissioned work by experts in the field of film studies provides a comprehensive overview of the field. Its international and interdisciplinary approach will have a broad appeal to those interested in this multifaceted subject.</p> <p>This major film theory collection:</p> <ul> <li>Represents material under a variety of headings, including class, race, gender, queer theory, nation, stars, ethnography, authorship, and spectatorship</li> <li>Offers an international approach to the subject, including coverage of topics such as genre, image, sound, editing, postmodernism, culture industries, early cinema, classical Hollywood, and TV relations and technology</li> <li>Includes concise chapter-by-chapter accounts of the background and current approaches to each topic, followed by a prognostication on the future</li> <li>Considers cinema studies in relation to other forms of knowledge, such as critical studies, anthropology, and literature.</li> </ul> <p><i>A Companion to Film Theory</i> provides the ideal reference source for students of film theory in departments of cultural studies, media studies, literature, and sociology.</p>

"A vital contribution to contemporary studies in film and culture." <i>Journal of Film and Video</i> <!--end--><br /> <p><br /> </p> <p>"[Offers] new and diverse directions which film theory can and must address … pivotal." <i>Scope: The Online Journal of Film Studies</i></p>

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