Thinking in the Dark Cinema Theory Practice 1st Edition by Murray Pomerance,R Barton Palmer ISBN 0813566282 978-0813566283

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ISBN 10: 0813566282

ISBN 13: 978-0813566283 

Author: Murray Pomerance, R. Barton Palmer

Today’s film scholars draw from a dizzying range of theoretical perspectives—they’re just as likely to cite philosopher Gilles Deleuze as they are to quote classic film theorist André Bazin. To students first encountering them, these theoretical lenses for viewing film can seem exhilarating, but also overwhelming.
 
Thinking in the Dark introduces readers to twenty-one key theorists whose work has made a great impact on film scholarship today, including Rudolf Arnheim, Sergei Eisenstein, Michel Foucault, Siegfried Kracauer, and Judith Butler. Rather than just discussing each theorist’s ideas in the abstract, the book shows how those concepts might be applied when interpreting specific films by including an analysis of both a classic film and a contemporary one. It thus demonstrates how theory can help us better appreciate films from all eras and genres: from Hugo to Vertigo, from City Lights to Sunset Blvd., and from Young Mr. Lincoln to A.I. and Wall-E.
 
The volume’s contributors are all experts on their chosen theorist’s work and, furthermore, are skilled at explaining that thinker’s key ideas and terms to readers who are not yet familiar with them. Thinking in the Dark is not only a valuable resource for teachers and students of film, it’s also a fun read, one that teaches us all how to view familiar films through new eyes. 

Table of contents:

1. Hugo Münsterberg: Psychologizing Spectatorship between Laboratory and Theater

2. Vachel Lindsay: Theory of Movie Hieroglyphics

3. Béla Balázs: Film Aesthetics and the Rituals of Romance

4. Siegfried Kracauer: The Politics of Film Theory and Criticism

5. Walter Benjamin: Afterimages of the Aura

6. Jean Epstein: Cinema’s Encounter with Modern Life

7. Sergei Eisenstein: Attractions/Montage/Animation

8. Jacques Lacan: Giving All the Right Signs

9. Rudolf Arnheim: Cinema and Partial Illusion

10. Roland Barthes: What Films Show Us and What They Mean

11. Jean Rouch: The Camera as Provocateur

12. André Bazin: Dark Passage into the Mystery of Being

13. Gilles Deleuze: On Movement, Time, and Modernism

14. Stanley Cavell: The Contingencies of Film and Its Theory

15. Michel Foucault: Murmur and Meditation

16. Jean Douchet: La Politique Hitchcockienne

17. Christian Metz: Dreaming a Language in Cinema

18. V. F. Perkins: Aesthetic Suspense

19. Jacques Rancière: Equality and Aesthetics

20. Michel Chion: Listening to Cinema

21. Judith Butler: Sex, Gender, and Subject Formation

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