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The Major Film Theories. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. André Bazin. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. ISBN 0-19-502165-7; Kenji Mizoguchi: A Guide to References and Resources with Paul Andrew. G.K. Hall & Co., 1981. Concepts in Film Theory. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. Film in the Aura of Art.
Film theory seeks to systematize film as a medium. It may use Critical theory , Formalism , Marxism , philosophy of language , or Lacanian psychoanalysis , while film criticism analyzes and examines a specific film (though larger generalizations can still be deduced from criticism).
Formalist film theory is an approach to film theory that is focused on the formal or technical elements of a film: i.e., the lighting, scoring, sound and set design, use of color, shot composition, and editing. This approach was proposed by Hugo Münsterberg, Rudolf Arnheim, Sergei Eisenstein, and Béla Balázs. [1]
In addition to scholarly work, he has written popular articles and reviews on art, art theory, and culture for magazines, including The Atlantic, Make Magazine, Miami Art Exchange and Art Scene. Betancourt's father is the archaeologist Philip P. Betancourt and his brother is the author John Gregory Betancourt .
Cinema Speculation is Tarantino's debut work of nonfiction and combines "film criticism, film theory, a feat of reporting, and wonderful personal history". [1] The book is a collection of essays organized around "key American films from the 1970s" which Tarantino saw in his youth, [2] ranging from blaxploitation films to all the Best Picture nominees of 1970. [3]
The meaning of a film, plus the way the viewing subject is constructed and the mechanics of the actual process and production of making the film affect the representation of the subject. This effect is ideological because it is a reproduced reality and the cinematic experience affects the viewer on a deep level.
Based on a Robert Harris novel, the thriller "Conclave," starring Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci, re-creates the secret process of electing a pope.
Christian Metz (French:; December 12, 1931 – September 7, 1993) was a French film theorist, best known for pioneering film semiotics, the application of theories of signification to the cinema. During the 1970s, his work had a major impact on film theory in France, Britain, Latin America, and the United States. [1]