European Film Theory and Cinema: A Critical Introduction
- ISBN-10
- 0253340438
- ISBN-13
- 9780253340436
- Category
- Film criticism
- Pages
- 275
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Author
- Ian Aitken
Description
European Film Theory and Cinema explores the major film theories and movements within European cinema since the early 1900s. An original and critically astute study, it considers film theory within the context of the intellectual climate of the last two centuries. Ian Aitkin focuses particularly on the two major traditions that dominate European film theory and cinema: the "intuitionist modernist and realist" tradition and the "post-Saussurian" tradition. The first originates in a philosophical lineage that encompasses German idealist philosophy, romanticism, phenomenology, and the Frankfurt School. Early intuitionist modernist film culture and later theories and practices of cinematic realism are shown to be part of one continuous tradition. The post-Saussurian tradition includes semiotics, structuralism, and post-structuralism.
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2001
- 284 pages
- Paperback
- Indiana University Press
Similar books
-
The Searchers: Essays and Reflections on John Ford's Classic Western
By Peter Lehman, Arthur M. EcksteinAxtell , “ The White Indians . ” The American literary tradition of the " captivity narrative ” from which The Searchers derives : see Kolodny , “ Among the Indians . ” On the historical background of actual captivity in the Texas ...
-
Gerçek bakış: Lacan sonrası sinema kuramı
By Todd McgowanGerçek bakış: Lacan sonrası sinema kuramı
-
The C.A. Lejeune Film Reader
By Caroline Alice Lejeune... and we recognized the meadows beside the river where an extremely nervous Flora Robson, in the stiff robes and ruff ... to carry Marguerite to Dover I idly wondered what they'd done that morning with the cats, all hundred of them, ...
-
The Movies of the Eighties
By Ron Base, David HaslamGibson considered himself Australian , but actually he was born in Peekskill , New York , where his father was a railroad brakeman . His grandmother was Australian though , a former opera singer , Gibson said , so when Gibson's father ...
-
Film Analysis Handbook: Essential Guide to Understanding, Analysing and Writing on Film
By Thomas Caldwell0 0 American director David Lynch went one step further. His debut film Eraserhead depicts Lynch's nightmarish fears about fatherhood and his disgust at the industrial city he was living in when making the film. However, Lynch does not ...
-
Film Theory for Beginners
By Richard Osborne, Angie BrewThis highly original and informative guide to the origins and development of film theory will be an indispensable tool for all students.
-
The Bigger Little Book of Hollywood Clichés
By Roger EbertSince The Little Book of Hollywood Cliches was first published the author has been flooded with new contributions and, along with some of his own insights, has combined the best of old and new in this expanded compendium of movie cliches, ...
-
Undergraduate Research in Film: A Guide for Students
By Jenny Olin Shanahan, Gregory Young, Lucia RicciardelliProfessors and students can use it as a text and/or a reference book. Essentially, what makes this volume unique from is that it brings together examples of film projects and film studies courses within the framework of research skills.
-
Agee on Film: Criticism and Comment on the Movies
By James AgeeAgee was particularly perceptive about the work of his friend John Huston and recognized the artistic merit of certain B films such as The Curse of the Cat People and other movies produced by Val Lewton.
-
Named and Shamed
By Chris TookeyNamed & Shamed is guaranteed to make you laugh at least once per page and will appeal greatly to the general reader and in particular to all film fans.