Chapter 18. Prospects for Film Theory: A Personal Assessment

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Introduction xxi
5. Chapter 1. Forget the Medium! 1
6. Chapter 2. Film, Attention, and Communication: A Naturalistic Account 10
7. Chapter 3. Film, Emotion, and Genre 59
8. Chapter 4. Ethnicity, Race, and Monstrosity: The Rhetorics of Horror and Humor 88
9. Chapter 5. Is the Medium a (Moral) Message? 108
10. Chapter 6. Film Form: An Argument for a Functional Theory of Style in the Individual Film 127
11. Chapter 7. Introducing Film Evaluation 147
12. Chapter 8. Nonfiction Film and Postmodernist Skepticism 165
13. Chapter 9. Fiction, Nonfiction, and the Film of Presumptive Assertion: Conceptual Analyses 193
14. Chapter 10. Photographic Traces and Documentary Films: Comments for Gregory Currie 225
15. Chapter 12. The Essence of Cinema? 255
16. Chapter 13. TV and Film: A Philosophical Perspective 265
17. Chapter 14. Kracauer’s Theory of Film 281
18. Chapter 15. Cinematic Nation Building: Eisenstein’s The Old and the New 303
19. Chapter 16. The Professional Western: South of the Border 323
20. Chapter 17. Moving and Moving: From Minimalism to Lives of Performers 345
21. Chapter 18. Prospects for Film Theory: A Personal Assessment 357
22. Credits 401
23. Index 403