Movies and Methods

Acknowledgments = ix Introduction / Bill Nichols = 1 Part 1. Contextual Criticism Political Criticism The Lef Arena / O.Brik and V.Shklovsky = 15 Cinema,Ideology,Criticism / Jean-Luc Comolli and Jean Narboni = 22 Fascinating Fascism / Susan Sontag = 31 Towards a Third Cinema / Fernando Solanas and Octavio Gettino = 44 Frank Capra and the Cinema of Populism / Jeffrey Richards = 65 Serpico / Irwin Silber = 78 Godfather II : A Deal Coppola Couldn't Refuse / John Hess = 81 Vent d'Est or Godard and Rocha at the Crossroads / James Roy Macbean = 91 Genre Criticism Cycles and Genres / Richard Griffith = 111 Genre and Critical Methodology / Andrew Tudor = 118 Meep Meep / Richard Thompson = 126 Prospects of the Ethnographic Film = David Macdougall = 135 The Evolution of the Western / Andre Bazin = 150 Genre : A Reply to Ed Buscombe / Richard Collins = 157 The Western / Alan Lovell = 164 Vivre Sa Vie / Siew Hwa Beh = 180 Sisters of the Night / Karyn Kay = 185 The Divided Woman : Bree Daniels in Klute / Diane Giddis = 194 The Woman's Film / Siew Hwa Beh = 201 Cries and Whispers / Constance Penley = 204 Women's Cinema as Counter/Cinema / Claire Johnston = 208 Part 2. Formal Criticism Auteur Criticism A Certain Tendency of the French Cinema / Francois Truffaut = 224 Towards a Theory of Film History / Andrew Sarris = 237 The Cinema of Nicholas Ray / V.F.Perkins = 251 Six Films of Josef von Sternberg / Raymond Durgnat = 262 Citizen Kane / David Bordwell = 273 Shock Corridor by Sam Fuller / Thomas Elsaesser = 290 To Have(written) and Have Not(directed) / Robin Wood = 297 Blow/Job and Pornography / Stephen Koch = 305 Mise/en/scene Criticism The Long Take / Brian Henderson = 314 Some Visual Motifs of Film Noir / J.A.Place and L.S.Peterson = 325 Disputed Passage / Fred Camper = 339 Mostly on Rio Lobo / Greg Ford = 344 Shape and a Black Point / Geoffrey Nowell-smith = 354 Paul Sharits : Illusion and Object / Regina Cornwell = 363 Part 3. Theory Film Theory Colour Film / Sergei Eisenstein = 381 Two Types of Film Theory / Brian Henderson = 388 A Critical History of Early Film Theory / V.F.Perkins = 401 Toward a Non/Bourgeois Camera Style / Brian Henderson = 422 The Tutor/Code of Classical Cinema / Daniel Dayan = 438 Against "The System of the Suture" / William Rothman = 451 Structuralism/semiology Totems and Movies / Sam Rohdie = 469 Cinema and Semiology : Some Points of Contact / Peter Wollen = 481 John Ford's Young Mr. Lincoln / The Editors, Cahiers Du Cinema = 493 The Auteur Theory / Peter Wollen = 529 The Cinema of Poetry / Pier Paolo Pasolini = 542 Structure and Meaning in the Cinema / Ronald Abramson = 558 Current Problems of Film Theory : Jean Mitry's L'Esthetique et Psychologie du Cinema, Vol. II / Christian Metz = 568 From Logos to Lens / Yves De Laurot = 578 On the Notion of Cinematographic Language / Christian Metz = 582 Articulations of the Cinematic Code / Umberto Eco = 590 Style, Grammar, and the Movies = Bill Nichols = 607 Glossary = 629 Index = 633

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