19. Jacques Rancière: Equality and Aesthetics

Chapters in this book

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