Film Theory (Images of Culture)

by N/A

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  Paperback
  1989

  $3.24

  This text offers an account of film theory, aimed at the cinemagoer and the student. It ranges from the late 1960's to the present, a period when a number of conceptual strands - notably politics, semiotics and psychoanalysis - were woven together in an ambitious synthesis. The authors chart the construction of this synthesis and its subsequent fragmentation, and elucidate the various intelectual currents contributing to it. The book covers the conceptual background of film theory and topics such as narrative, authorship, realism and the avant-garde and postmodernism.