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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction 1
- 1. Hugo Münsterberg: Psychologizing Spectatorship between Laboratory and Theater 7
- 2. Vachel Lindsay: Theory of Movie Hieroglyphics 19
- 3. Béla Balázs: Film Aesthetics and the Rituals of Romance 31
- 4. Siegfried Kracauer: The Politics of Film Theory and Criticism 42
- 5. Walter Benjamin: Afterimages of the Aura 54
- 6. Jean Epstein: Cinema’s Encounter with Modern Life 66
- 7. Sergei Eisenstein: Attractions/Montage/Animation 77
- 8. Jacques Lacan: Giving All the Right Signs 89
- 9. Rudolf Arnheim: Cinema and Partial Illusion 101
- 10. Roland Barthes: What Films Show Us and What They Mean 113
- 11. Jean Rouch: The Camera as Provocateur 125
- 12. André Bazin: Dark Passage into the Mystery of Being 136
- 13. Gilles Deleuze: On Movement, Time, and Modernism 150
- 14. Stanley Cavell: The Contingencies of Film and Its Theory 162
- 15. Michel Foucault: Murmur and Meditation 174
- 16. Jean Douchet: La Politique Hitchcockienne 185
- 17. Christian Metz: Dreaming a Language in Cinema 197
- 18. V. F. Perkins: Aesthetic Suspense 208
- 19. Jacques Rancière: Equality and Aesthetics 217
- 20. Michel Chion: Listening to Cinema 229
- 21. Judith Butler: Sex, Gender, and Subject Formation 241
- Works Cited 253
- Notes on Contributors 263
- Index 267
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction 1
- 1. Hugo Münsterberg: Psychologizing Spectatorship between Laboratory and Theater 7
- 2. Vachel Lindsay: Theory of Movie Hieroglyphics 19
- 3. Béla Balázs: Film Aesthetics and the Rituals of Romance 31
- 4. Siegfried Kracauer: The Politics of Film Theory and Criticism 42
- 5. Walter Benjamin: Afterimages of the Aura 54
- 6. Jean Epstein: Cinema’s Encounter with Modern Life 66
- 7. Sergei Eisenstein: Attractions/Montage/Animation 77
- 8. Jacques Lacan: Giving All the Right Signs 89
- 9. Rudolf Arnheim: Cinema and Partial Illusion 101
- 10. Roland Barthes: What Films Show Us and What They Mean 113
- 11. Jean Rouch: The Camera as Provocateur 125
- 12. André Bazin: Dark Passage into the Mystery of Being 136
- 13. Gilles Deleuze: On Movement, Time, and Modernism 150
- 14. Stanley Cavell: The Contingencies of Film and Its Theory 162
- 15. Michel Foucault: Murmur and Meditation 174
- 16. Jean Douchet: La Politique Hitchcockienne 185
- 17. Christian Metz: Dreaming a Language in Cinema 197
- 18. V. F. Perkins: Aesthetic Suspense 208
- 19. Jacques Rancière: Equality and Aesthetics 217
- 20. Michel Chion: Listening to Cinema 229
- 21. Judith Butler: Sex, Gender, and Subject Formation 241
- Works Cited 253
- Notes on Contributors 263
- Index 267
