Post-Theory

CONTENTS Contributors = ⅸ Introduction = xiii PART ONE. STATE OF THE ART = 1 1. Contemporary Film Studies and the Vicissitudes of Grand Theory / David Bordwell = 3 2. Prospects for Film Theory : A Personal Assessment / Noël Carroll = 37 PART TWO. FILM THEORY AND AESTHETICS = 69 3. Psychoanalytic Film Theory and the Problem of the Missing Spectator / Stephen Prince = 71 4. Convention, Construction, and Cinematic Vision / David Bordwell = 87 5. Is a Cognitive Approach to the Avant-garde Cinema Perverse? / James Peterson = 108 6. The Logic and Legacy of Brechtianism / Murray Smith = 130 7. Characterization and Fictional Truth in the Cinema / Paisley Livingston = 149 8. Empathy and (Film) Fiction / Alex Neill = 175 9. Feminist Frameworks for Horror Films / Cynthia A. Freeland = 195 10. Apt Feelings, or Why "Women's Films" Aren't Trivial / Flo Leibowitz = 219 11. Unheard Melodies? A Critique of Psychoanalytic Theories of Film Music / Jeff Smith = 230 12. Film Music and Narrative Agency / Jerrold Levinson = 248 13. Nonfiction Film and Postmodernist Skepticism / Noël Carroll = 283 14. Moving Pictures and the Rhetoric of Nonfiction Film : Two Approaches / Carl Plantinga = 307 15. Film, Reality, and Illusion / Gregory Currie = 325 PART THREE. PSYCHOLOGY OF FILM = 345 16. The Case for an Ecological Metatheory / Joseph Anderson ; Barbara Anderson = 347 17. Movies in the Mind's Eye / Julian Hochberg ; Virginia Brooks = 368 18. Notes on Audience Response / Richard J. Gerrig ; Deborah A. Prentice = 388 PART FOUR. HISTORY AND ANALYSIS = 405 19. Toward a New Media Economics / Douglas Gomery = 407 20. Columbia Pictures : The Making of a Motion Picture Major, 1930-1943 / Tino Balio = 419 21. "A Brief Romantic Interlude" : Dick and Jane Go to 3½ Seconds of the Classical Hollywood Cinema / Richard Maltby = 434 22. The Jazz Singer's Reception in the Media and at the Box Office / Donald Crafton = 460 23. Jameson and "Global Aesthetics" / Michael Walsh = 481 24. Reconstructing Japanese Film / Donald Kirihara = 501 25. Danish Cinema and the Politics of Recognition / Mette Hjort = 520 26. Whose Apparatus? Problems of Film Exhibition and History / Vance Kepley, -Jr. = 533 Selected Bibliography = 553 Index = 561

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