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These fifteen essays by well-known scholars demonstrate the vitality and variety of psychoanalytic film criticism, as well as the crucial role feminist theory has played in its development.

Setting out to broaden the previous field of research on sound, this book promises to renew the debate over the importance of sound to cinema, from a theoretical as well as an historical perspective.

his volume of new writings revitalises the question of authorship by connecting it to wider issues of identity - in film, in the marketplace, in society and culture.

A collection of essays that looks at specific issues related to the film documentary form. Types of documentary include educational TV, personality profiles, ethnography and polemic tracts. The authors address such questions as "What is documentary?" and "How fictional is non-fiction?".

An interdisciplinary examination of Walt Disney and his empire. Examining Disney at a time of expansion with new mall stores and theme parks, these essays look at its domestic cultural production and global politics.

The Western is the first book to consider seriously the historical meanings and functions of the Western film genre.

Presents a reassessment of East European cinemas from theoretical, psychoanalytic and gender perspectives. Charting the changes and the continuities that have characterized the cinemas of Eastern Europe, this collection of essays questions and re-evaluates such notions as the 'European', 'post communism' and 'national cinema.

The Persistence of History is an anthology of essays from major film scholars and historians which focuses on a radical contemporary challenge to historical representation in film.

Landscape is everywhere in film, but it has been largely overlooked in theory and criticism. This book addresses questions, such as: What kind of landscape is cinematic landscape? How is cinematic landscape different from landscape painting? And, how is cinematic landscape related to the idea of a national cinema and questions of identity.

Applies the recent 'return to history' in film studies to the genre of classical Hollywood comedy as well as broadening the definition of those works considered central in this field.

The standard analytical category of "national cinema" has been called into question by the category of the "transnational." This work examines the premises and consequences of the coexistence of these two categories and the parameters of historiographical approaches that cross the borders of nation states.

Bringing together articles by scholars from the disciplines of Film Studies, Philosophy, Critical and Visual Studies, Romance Languages and Literatures, and Aesthetics, this title inquires into the 'Europeanness' of European film theory. It also explores the philosophical origins of European film theory.

Explores popular movies through the lens of film theory, beginning with industrial-economic analysis before moving into a predominately aesthetic and interpretive framework.

Black American Cinema demonstrates the wealth of Black contribution to American film and the complex course that contribution has taken.

The standard analytical category of "national cinema" has been called into question by the category of the "transnational." This work examines the premises and consequences of the coexistence of these two categories and the parameters of historiographical approaches that cross the borders of nation states.

What is the value of the historical archive the televised public hearings or activist online videos constitute? How do the documentary testimonies compensate for or account for the frailty of memory? The title features essays that analyze questions regarding the usefulness and legitimacy of documentary testimony.

From Chaplin's tramp to the Bathing Beauties slapstick comedy supplied many of the most enduring icons of American cinema in the silent era. This collection of fourteen essays by film scholars challenges longstanding critical dogma and offers new conceptual frameworks for thinking about silent comedy's place in film history and American culture.

From Chaplin's tramp to the Bathing Beauties, from madcap chases to skyscraper perils, slapstick comedy supplied many of the most enduring icons of American cinema in the silent era. This title offers a collection of fourteen essays that presents conceptual frameworks for thinking about silent comedy's place in film history and American culture.

Examines documentary films. This title features the essays that analyze questions regarding the usefulness and legitimacy of documentary testimony: What is the value of the historical archive the televised public hearings or activist online videos constitute? And is it made part of the official record, or dismissed as renegade or ephemeral?