Film Theory And Criticism

I. Film and reality = 1 From theory of film : Basic concepts / Siegfried Kracauer = 7 From what is cinema? : Myth of total cinema / André Bazin = 23 From film as art : The complete film / Rudolf Arnheim = 28 Revolt against realism in the films / William Earle = 33 From film as film : Form and discipline / V.F. Perkins = 45 From semiotics of cinema : The illusion of reality / Jurij Lotman = 55 II. Film image and film language = 71 From film technique : On editing / Vsevolod Pudovkin = 77 From film form : The cinematographic principle and the ideogram / Sergei Eisenstein = 85 The dialectic approach to film form / Sergei Eisenstein = 101 From what is cinema? : Evolution of the language of cinema / André Bazin = 123 Cinemascope : before and after / Charles Barr = 140 From film language : Some points in the semiotics of cinema / Christian Metz = 169 Christian Metz and the semiology of the cinema / Alfred Guzzetti = 184 Semiotics and the cinema : Metz and Wollen / Gilbert Harman = 204 On the contribution of film to semiotics / Umberto Eco = 217 Eco-location / Gilbert Harman = 234 III. The film medium = 237 Style and medium in the motion pictures / Erwin Panofsky = 243 From theory of film : Establishment of physical existence / Siegfried Kracauer = 264 From film as art : Film and reality / Rudolf Arnheim = 279 Making of a film / Rudolf Arnheim = 283 From theory of the film : The close-up / Béla Balász = 288 The face of man / Béla Balász = 290 From film/cinema/movie : Projection / Gerald Mast = 299 From the world viewed : Photograph and screen / Stanley Cavell = 306 Audience, actor, and star / Stanley Cavell = 308 Types, cycles as genres / Stanley Cavell = 311 Ideas of origin / Stanley Cavell = 318 Basic film aesthetics / F.E. Sparshott = 321 IV. Film, theater, and literature = 345 From the film, a psychological study : The means of a photoplay / Hugo Munsterberg = 349 Film and theatre / Susan Sontag = 359 From what is cinema? : Theater and cinema / André Bazin = 378 From film form : Dickens, Griffith, and film today / Sergei Eisenstein = 394 From novels into film : Limits of the novel and the film / George Bluestone = 406 Narration and narrativity in film / Robert Scholes = 417 V. Kinds of film = 435 From the world in a frame : Genre, the conventions of connection / Leo Braudy = 443 Movie chronicle, the Westerner / Robert Warshow = 469 The imagination of disaster / Susan Sontag = 488 From from reverence to rape : The woman's film / Molly Haskell = 505 Comedy's greatest era / James Agee = 535 Chinatown and generic transformation in recent American films / John G. Cawelti = 559 Nonfiction film : the realist impulse / Richard Meran Barsam = 580 The lovely art : magic / Gilbert Seldes = 594 Suspended animation / Joe Adamson = 606 Film and the radical aspiration / Annette Michelson = 617 VI. The film artist = 637 Before the cameras roll / Otis Ferguson = 643 Notes on the auteur theory in 1962 / Andrew Sarris = 650 Circles and squares / Pauline Kael = 666 From signs and meaning in the cinema : The auteur theory / Peter Wollen = 680 The Hollywood screenwriter / Richard Corliss = 692 From the comic mind : comedy and the movies : Preston Sturges and the dialogue tradition / Gerald Mast = 702 The men with the movie cameras / Richard Koszarski = 711 The face of Garbo / Roland Barthes = 720 Garbo / Kenneth Tynan = 722 Uncensored Garbo / Charles Affron = 730 VII. Film and society = 741 From magic and the myth of the movies : Preface / Parker Tyler = 747 From expanded cinema : Art, entertainment, entropy / Gene Youngblood = 754 From we're in the money : Frank Capra and screwball comedy, 1931-1941 / Andrew Bergman = 761 John Ford's Young Mr. Lincoln / editors of Cahiers du cinéma = 778 Toward a non-bourgeois camera style / Brian Henderson = 832 The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction / Walter Benjamin = 848 Biblography = 871

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