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Books on: film theories

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Novel to Film: An Introduction to the Theory of Adaptation

Book by Brian McFarlane; Clarendon Press, 1996

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Film Adaptations

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...General: Books and Articles on Films and/or Literature and on...Screenwriting: The Novelist and Films", Journal of the British Film Academy , 8 Summer 1956 , 9...J. DUDLEY, The Major Film Theories Oxford University Press: New...Worn Muse: Adaptation in Film History and Theory", in S. M. Conger and J...
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Children's Films: History, Ideology, Pedagogy, Theory

Book by Ian Wojcik-Andrews; Garland, 2000

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Children's Films--History And Criticism

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...media in general and childrens films in particular must be understood...of childrens literature and film? What literary theories are used to discuss childrens literature and film and how might those theories be used to discuss childrens films? What key concepts or important...
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The Abject Object: Avatars of the Phallus in Contemporary French Theory, Literature and Film

Book by Michael Bishop, Adelaide Russo, Michael Sheringham, Steven Winspur, Sonya Stephens, Michael Brophy, Anja Pearre; Rodopi, 2006

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French Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, French Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism--Theory, Etc, Gender Identity In Literature, Masculinity In Literature, Motion Pictures--France--History, Penis In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...certainly fall into that category. The film was severely criticised for its supposed...women; for Jean-Louis Bory it was Ie film le plus misogyne quon puisse imaginer...shall argue, is no less true of Eustaches film, for reasons closely connected with the...
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Chinese Film Theory: A Guide to the New Era

Book by George S. Semsel, Xia Hong, Hou Jianping, Li Xiaohong, Fan Yuan; Praeger Publishers, 1990

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Motion Pictures--China, Motion Pictures--Philosophy

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...domain of film theory. Film theory becomes an ideology...to "make socialist films characteristic of the...itself a summary of film theories with a clear ideological...and introduce useful theories from abroad. Chinese film theory should be a generalization...experiences from foreign films. Based on this
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Concepts in Film Theory

Book by Dudley Andrew; Oxford University Press, 1984

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Motion Pictures--Philosophy

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...CHAPTER 1: THE STATE OF FILM THEORY General Anthologies...Dudley. The Major Film Theories: An Introduction...Phenomenology in Film Theory." Wide Angle 2 , no...Marshall Cohen, eds. Film Theory and Criticism...1972. Tudor Andrew. Theories of Film . New York...Miscellaneous Approaches to Film Theory and Aesthetics Carroll...

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Journal Articles on: film theories

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Film, Theory and Philosophy: The Key Thinkers

Journal article by David Martin-Jones; Film Criticism, Vol. 35, 2010

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Books--Book reviews, Film, Theory and Philosophy: The Key Thinkers (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...about the anthology Film, Theory and Philosophy is its considerable...work increasingly known as film-philosophy. As Felicity...Colmans introduction ("What is Film-Philosophy") is clear and...conditions" (12) from which films and film theories emerge. Although it is fair...
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Contingency's Work: Kracauer's Theory of Film and the Trope of the Accidental

Journal article by Janet Harbord; New Formations, 2007

Subjects:

Desert Screen: War at the Speed of Light (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Kracauer, Siegfried--Criticism and interpretation, Kracauer, Siegfried--Works, Motion pictures--Portrayals, Movies--Portrayals, Photography--Portrayals, Theory of Film (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Virilio, Paul--Criticism and interpretation, Virilio, Paul--Works

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...celebration of films ability to render...In fact, Theory of Film provides an...mastery. In Theory of Film, the drive...and classify films attributes exists...repetitively in Theory of Film, is the marker of films extension of...
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Psychoanalysis, Film Theory, and the Case of Being John Malkovich

Journal article by Dana Dragunoiu; Film Criticism, Vol. 26, 2001

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Alienation (Social psychology)--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Being John Malkovich (Motion picture)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Film criticism--Philosophy, Malkovich, John--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Motion pictures--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Psychoanalysis--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

Collections: Psychology, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Likewise, the films parodic elements...psychoanalysis and the film theory it has inspired...demonstrates the films complicity with a Lacanian theory of subjectivity, the film unsettles this...psychoanalysis and the film theory it has influenced...conservative, and the film makes no secret...In terms of the films more strictly psychoanalytic...
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Reverence, Rape, Resistance: Joyce Carol Oates and Feminist Film Theory

Journal article by Marilyn C. Wesley; Mosaic (Winnipeg), Vol. 32, 1999

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Feminist criticism--Analysis, Film criticism--Analysis, Oates, Joyce Carol--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Joyce Carol Oates and Feminist Film Theory. by Marilyn C. Wesley The contemporary...intersection between Oatess fiction and film theory but also the way that recourse...ways Oatess fiction and feminist film theory are posing the same liberatory...
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Genre Theory in the Context of the Noir and Post-Noir Film

Journal article by Christopher Orr; Film Criticism, Vol. 22, 1997

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Detective and mystery films--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Film genres--Analysis, Films noirs--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Sex in motion pictures--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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Genre theory in the context of the noir and post-noir film by Christopher Orr This essay...categories to a body of American films made in the 1940s and 1950s that became known as film noir as well as to a body of later films influenced by the noir tradition...

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Magazine Articles on: film theories

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Shakespeare: A Chaos Theory

Magazine article by Richard Combs, Raymond Durgnat; Film Comment, Vol. 37, July 2001

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Adaptations, Motion picture industry, Motion pictures--Criticism and interpretation, Movie industry, Movies--Criticism and interpretation, O (Motion picture)--Criticism and interpretation, Shakespeare, William

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Shakespeare: A Chaos Theory. by Richard Combs , Raymond Durgnat...dedicated), or the Earl of Oxford (Freuds theory), or a woman (as he understood women...they pixilate one another. Thats chaos theory. If chaos theory is post-postmodernist...
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Theory of Relativity: Dreams, Nightmares, and Harsh Realities from New Directors/New Films

Magazine article by Kristin M. Jones; Film Comment, Vol. 41, May-June 2005

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Theory of Relativity: Dreams, Nightmares, and Harsh Realities from New Directors/New Films. by Kristin M. Jones Content not available due to copyright restrictions.
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Medium Shots: The Films of Morgan Fisher

Magazine article by P. Adams Sitney; Artforum International, Vol. 44, January 2006

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Archives, Motion picture--Exhibitions, Film archives--Exhibitions, Filmmakers--Exhibitions, Fisher, Morgan--Exhibitions, Motion picture film collections--Exhibitions, Motion pictures--Archival resources, Motion pictures--Exhibitions, Movie directors--Exhibitions, Museums--Exhibitions, Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, New York)--Exhibitions

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...in the Summer 1969 issue of Film Culture). Yet "structural film" was largely a New York...reason, fascinated by the theory and criticism of the visual...American makers of "structural" films, long duration and repetitive...in pointed opposition to the film theories of Sergey Eisenstein and Andre...
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A Trip to the Movies: 100 Years of Film as Art

Magazine article by Bruce Hinrichs; The Humanist, Vol. 56, January 1996

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Fantastic films--Criticism and interpretation, Fantastic movies--Criticism and interpretation, Motion picture industry--History, Motion pictures--Criticism and interpretation, Movie industry--History, Movies--Criticism and interpretation, Realism (Cultural movement)--Criticism and interpretation, Realism in motion pictures--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: History, Entire Library

...include Fritz Langs early German films, especially Metropolis (1927...starring Peter Lorre in his first film role as a child murderer hunted...censor ship. One of the first films to convey the surrealist attitude...a Soul (1926), the first film to explore Freuds theories of dream interpretation. But...
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Blues Interpretations: Seven Films from Martin Scorsese

Magazine article by Tony Bolden; The Crisis, Vol. 110, September 2003

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Blues music, Documentary films, Musicians & conductors, Scorsese, Martin, Television programs

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...Blues Interpretations: Seven Films from Martin Scorsese by Tony...Blues interpretations: Seven Films From Martin Scorsese "The...Martin Scorseses new seven-film documentary series called The...becomes a musician. In Burnetts film there is unabashed embrace...guitar. There are conflicting theories of just what constitutes the...

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Newspaper Articles on: film theories

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7/7 Was an MI5 Plot, Holocaust Denier Claims in BBC Film; Theory: Nicholas Kollerstrom Believes Bombers Were "Patsies"

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), June 10, 2008

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Bombings

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Denier Claims in BBC Film; Theory: Nicholas Kollerstrom...a documentary about theories surrounding the terrorist...to themany conspiracy theories which have grown up...advanced a number of theories about these attacks...Square, toexplore his theory that the victim may...
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BBC Hires Disgraced Holocaust Denier for 7/7 Conspiracy Film; Theory: Nicholas Kollerstrom Believes Bombers Were "Patsies"

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), June 10, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...for 7/7 Conspiracy Film; Theory: Nicholas Kollerstrom...a documentary about theories surrounding the terrorist...videos of conspiracy theories and it is not very nice...hasadvanced a number of theories about these attacks...Square, toexplore his theory that the victim may...
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Skeptic Spreads Word of 'Folly'; Films, Web Stoke Theory That Mission Was a Fraud

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), July 20, 2009

Subjects:

Fraud

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...space agency will pay film restoration company...promulgate a conspiracy theory, and very difficult...could promote their theories was by writing articles...readily spread hoax theories. Mr. Sibrels films on the subject, notably...landings as fakes. The theory holds that NASA officials...the plot of the 1978 film Capricorn One, starring...
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This Film Couldn't Be Moore Wrong; WHY BUSH CONSPIRACY THEORIES DON'T ADD UP

Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), June 30, 2004

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Moore, Michael

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

This Film Couldnt Be Moore Wrong; WHY BUSH CONSPIRACY THEORIES DONT ADD UP. Byline...contemptuous expression for a theory they know is sheer junk...Wrong". Documentary films are not exact science...truth. Michael Moores film Fahrenheit 9/11 is...several months ago. The film makes the breathless...attacks. But between the films showing in Cannes and...
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NEW HUNT FOR DIANA CLUESDiana Crash Theories Tested; Yard Team Seals Paris Tunnel of Death to Work on Vital 3D recreationSir John Stevens's Team Film Tunnel to Recreate Scene STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGY WILL SHOW EXACT CONDITIONS AND FACTORS INVOLVED IN THE 1997 PARIS CAR SMASH THAT KILLED PRINCESS AND HER LOVER DODI FAYED

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), February 16, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...FOR DIANA CLUESDiana Crash Theories Tested; Yard Team Seals Paris...recreationSir John Stevenss Team Film Tunnel to Recreate Scene STATE...for the first time all the theories about how she died. Former...to the bottom of conspiracy theories surrounding Dianas death...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: film theories

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Motion Pictures

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Other outstanding anime films include Katusuhiro Otomos Akira...Lorentz and the Documentary Film (1968); A. Rosenthal...B. Crowther, The Great Films (1967); D. Shipman, The...J. D. Andrew, The Major Film Theories (1976) and Concepts in Film Theory (1984); K. Brownlow, Hollywood...
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Pagnol, Marcel

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...French dramatist and film director. Pagnol gained...directorial debut. Other films include The Well-Diggers...1937) embodies Pagnols theories of the film art. His other works...1986, the two-part film Jean de Florette and...critically acclaimed 1991 films, My Fathers Glory and...
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Directing

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...performances on the stage or in films. The modern theatrical director...Theatre dArt (1890). The theories of Adolphe Appia in Germany...playwright Bertolt Brecht , whose theories have greatly influenced 20th...generations of theater and film actors devoted to the Stanislavsky...music, acrobatics, dance, film, and mime into their productions...
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Psychoanalysis

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...theory, anthropology, and film criticism. Psychoanalytic Therapy and Theory The basic postulate of psychoanalysis...vast body of psychoanalytic theory. In considering the human...Freud demonstrated this in his theory of psychosexuality, in which...empirical evidence, Freudian theories often seem weak, and ultimately...
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Derrida, Jacques

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...In his famously dense and complex writings he refuted the theory of structuralism and attempted to take apart, or "deconstruct...Western metaphysics (e.g., the work of Saussure , whose theories he rejected) had judged writing to be inferior to speech...1987); A. Z. Kofman, dir., Derrida (documentary film, 2002). ____________________ Copyright...

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