Narrative, Apparatus, Ideology: A Film Theory Reader (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780231058810)

Smartly selected and organized, the essays in this anthology introduce several central issues in film theory, namely, the classical narrative text, oppositional and avant-garde cinema, subject positioning, the cinematic apparatus, and ideology. Written by seminal scholars, including Christian Metz, Jean-Louis Baudry, Stephen Heath, Peter Wollen, Laura Mulvey, and No? Burch, as well as such leading thinkers as Roland Barthes, Julia Kristeva, and Jean-Fran輟is Lyotard, these works utilize a number of approaches in their analyses, particularly structuralism, poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, feminism, neoformalism, Marxism, and semiotics. Divided into sections, the anthology features introductions to each group of essays outlining the major assumptions, ideas, and arguments of the articles and situating them within the history of film theory, narrative analysis, and social and cultural theory.

Author: Philip Rosen
ISBN-10: 0231058810
ISBN-13: 9780231058810
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/04/1986
Pages: 564
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.73lbs
Size: 9.24h x 6.01w x 1.37d