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Narrative, Apparatus, Ideology

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Smartly selected and organized, the essays in this anthology introduce several central issues in film theory, namely, the classical narrative text, oppositional and avant-garde cinema, subject posi...
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  • 04 November 1986
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Smartly selected and organized, the essays in this anthology introduce several central issues in film theory, namely, the classical narrative text, oppositional and avant-garde cinema, subject positioning, the cinematic apparatus, and ideology. Written by seminal scholars, including Christian Metz, Jean-Louis Baudry, Stephen Heath, Peter Wollen, Laura Mulvey, and Noël Burch, as well as such leading thinkers as Roland Barthes, Julia Kristeva, and Jean-François Lyotard, these works utilize a number of approaches in their analyses, particularly structuralism, poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, feminism, neoformalism, Marxism, and semiotics. Divided into sections, the anthology features introductions to each group of essays outlining the major assumptions, ideas, and arguments of the articles and situating them within the history of film theory, narrative analysis, and social and cultural theory.
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Price: $42.00
Pages: 549
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Publication Date: 04 November 1986
Trim Size: 9.10 X 5.90 in
ISBN: 9780231058810
Format: Paperback
BISACs: PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General
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Intoxicating analyses of films dance alongside the most far-reaching theories of signification and history. Yet through it all Philip Rosen maintains a sober eye, pointing out the backgrounds of these performers and the consequences of their gestures. Under his measured gaze this dizzying flight of ideas takes on a pattern, or rather multiple patterns, that will keep us thinking and talking for a long time to come. Read either for the careful continuity of these introductions or for the dramatic intensity of the individual pieces, the anthology must reward the student, the initiated, and the merely curious.
Philip Rosen is professor of modern culture and media at Brown University and works in the fields of film theory and history, with special attention to the question of culture and ideology and to historiography and temporality in the contexts of national cinemas. He is the author of Change Mummified: Cinema, Historicity, Theory and coeditor of Cinema Histories, Cinema Practices.

Part 1. Structures of Filmic Narrative
Introduction: The Saussurian Impulse and Cinema Semiotics
1. Classical Hollywood Cinema: Narrational Principles and Procedures, by David Bordwell
2. Problems of Denotation in the Fiction Film, by Christian Metz
3. Segmenting/Analyzing, by Raymond Bellour
4. The Obvious and the Code, by Raymond Bellour
5. The Spectator-in-the-Text: The Rhetoric of Stagecoach, by Nick Browne
6. Godard and Counter-Cinema: Vent d' Est, by Peter Wollen
7. The Concept of Cinematic Excess, by Kristin Thompson
8. Uncoded Images in the Heterogeneous Text, by Deborah Linderman
Part 2: Subject, Narrative, Cinema
Introduction: Text and Subject
9. Diderot, Brecht, Eisenstein, by Roland Barthes
10. Theory and Film: Principles of Realism and Pleasure, by Colin MacCabe
11. Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, by Laura Mulvey
12. Voyeurism, The Look, and Dwoskin, by Paul Willemen
13. Suture (excerpts), by Kaja Silverman
14. Ellipsis on Dread and the Specular Seduction, by Julia Kristeva
15. The Imaginary Signifier (excerpts), by Christian Metz
Part 3: Apparatus
Introduction
16. Ideological Effects of the Basic Cinematographic Apparatus, by Jean-Louis Baudry
17. The Apparatus: Metapsychological Approaches to the Impression of Reality in Cinema, by Jean-Louis Baudry
18. The Silences of the Voice, by Pascal Bonitzer
19. The Voice in the Cinema: The Articulation of Body and Space, by Mary Ann Doane
20. Acinema, by Jean François Lyotard
21. Through the Looking-Glass, by Teresa de Lauretis
Part 4: Textuality as Ideology
Introduction
22. Narrative Space, by Stephen Heath
23. Technique and Ideology: Camera, Perspective, Depth of Field (Parts 3 and 4), by Jean-Louis Comolli
24. John Ford's Young Mr. Lincoln, by Editors of Cahiers du cinéma
25. Primitivism and the Avant-Gardes: A Dialectical Approach, by Noël Burch
26. Film Body: An Implantation of Perversions, by Linda Williams
27. Primary Identification and the Historical Subject: Fassbinder and Germany, by Thomas Elsaesser