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Richard Warren Schickel (February 10, 1933 – February 18, 2017) was an American film historian, journalist, author, documentarian, and film and literary critic. He was a film critic for Time from 1965–2010, and also wrote for Life and the Los Angeles Times Book Review. His last writings about film were for Truthdig.
The Schreiber theory is a writer-centered approach to film criticism and film theory which holds that the principal author of a film is generally the screenwriter rather than the director. The term was coined by David Morris Kipen , Director of Literature at the US National Endowment for the Arts .
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 is a set of scholarly approaches within the academic discipline of film or cinema studies that began in the 1920s by questioning the formal essential attributes of motion pictures; [1] and that now provides conceptual frameworks for understanding film's relationship to reality, the other arts, individual viewers, and society at large. [2]
David Jay Bordwell (/ ˈ b ɔːr d w əl /; July 23, 1947 – February 29, 2024) was an American film theorist and film historian. [1] After receiving his PhD from the University of Iowa in 1973, he wrote more than fifteen volumes on the subject of cinema including Narration in the Fiction Film (1985), Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema (1988), Making Meaning (1989), and On the History of Film ...
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 Fright of Real Tears: Krzysztof Kieślowski Between Theory and Post-Theory is a 2001 book by the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek which uses free associative film interpretation to tangentially examine the films of Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski while avoiding the debate between cognitive film theory and psychoanalytic film theory.
This book was the subject of a famous negative critique by the British literary critic Brigid Brophy. [ 2 ] While a graduate student he attended the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris (1972–73), following courses by Louis Althusser , Etienne Balibar , Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida .