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Books on: theory of films

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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

...undress. Drawing on the theories of Laura Mulvey and...women in mainstream films is not unlike the representation...Like feminist film theory, the history of feminist...different critical theories into the analysis of...and psychoanalytic theories respectively. Kathy...criticism, What Feminist Film Theory Knows about Childrens Cinema and Films. In Enigma Variations...
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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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...WILLSON, "Classics into Films", Fortnightly Review , NS...Narratives in the Novel and Film", Mosaic , 16/1-2 Winter...The Mongrel Muse", in Films and Feeling Faber and Faber...repr. in F. H. Marcus ed. , Film and Literature Chandler Publishers...London, 1981 . ECO, UMBERTO, A Theory of Semiotics Indiana University...
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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

...Ferreris La Grande Bouffe The Italian film-maker Marco Ferreri enjoyed a somewhat...might be thought to deserve. Of his two films to be discussed here, La Grande Bouffe...kitchen-knife. It was of the latter film that Ferreri said: Lhomme est comme un...Ferreris male characters, in these two films at least, are in thrall to what Guy Braucourt...
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Theory of Film: The Redemption of Physical Reality

Book by Siegfried Kracauer; Oxford University Press, 1960

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Motion Pictures

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...Traumfabrik: Chronik des Films , Berlin, 1931. Eisenstein, Sergei M., The Film Sense , New York, 1942...Film Form: Essays in Film Theory , New York, 1949. Edited...Eisenstein, issued by the Film Section of the Society...Hanns, Composing for the Films , New York, 1947. Epstein...
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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

...Mast and Cohen. Film Theory and Criticism . Sub...Charles. Cineliteracy: Film Among the Arts . New...Alfred. "The Role of Theory in Films and Novels." New Literary...R. A. "Novels and Films: A Limited Inquiry." Literature Film Quarterly 6 , no. 1...

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Journal Articles on: theory of films

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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

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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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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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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.

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...Carol Oates and Feminist Film Theory. by Marilyn C. Wesley...between Oatess fiction and film theory but also the way that...will acquire through the film process, the girl will...illusory integration for the films male audience. It is...
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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: theory of films

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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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...pixilate one another. Thats chaos theory. If chaos theory is post-postmodernist, so is...Ecstasy, practically the dance film that Loves Labours Lost unwisely...now rambles city-wide, and the film finds diverse ways to paraphrase...
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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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Rerunning Film Noir: As Americans Embraced the Future after World War II, They Entertained Themselves with Cinematic Visions of Mean Streets and Sordid Pasts. the Tale of Film Noir's Rise and Fall Has a Few Twists of Its Own

Magazine article by Richard Schickel; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 31, Summer 2007

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Film noir--Appreciation, Film noir--History, Films noirs--Appreciation, Films noirs--History, United States history--Social aspects, World War II, 1939-1945--Social aspects

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...all our seriously intended films, whether or not their subject...about what the first noir film was, but in my opinion the...them, and the message of film noir was curiously at odds with the national mood. Noir films, with their greatly intensified...bullet meant for Joe. The films greatness derives from the...unavailable, therefore neglected) film that, I think, fits Schraders theory of the 1940s and early 50s...
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Tone Poems: P. Adams Sitney on the Films of Nathaniel Dorsky

Magazine article by P. Adams Sitney; Artforum International, Vol. 46, November 2007

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Dorsky, Nathaniel--Criticism and interpretation, Dorsky, Nathaniel--Works, Experimental films--Social aspects, Experimental movies--Social aspects

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...superiority of silent film, Sonbert, Dorsky...affection grew the more films they produced. ILLUSTRATION...history of avant-garde film. Fierce aesthetic battles...forms ("structural film") and the status of...idealism, the importance of theory (especially French...Greenwald, nurtured ideas of films that would have no narrative...

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Newspaper Articles on: theory of films

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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

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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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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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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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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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Myths of the Feelbad Films; A Spate of Films like the Corporation, out This Week, Urges Us to Distrust Those in Power. but Are We Just Falling for Simplistic New Conspiracy Theories?

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), October 27, 2004

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

Myths of the Feelbad Films; A Spate of Films like the Corporation, out...Simplistic New Conspiracy Theories? Byline: ANNE MCELVOY ANYONE...were up to no good. Curtiss film is very much of the moment...more modest end of conspiracy theory. But this time he has joined...LIKE so many of the feelbad films, it starts with a very good...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: theory of films

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Resnais, Alain

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...concerned with form and cinematic theory, and also more overtly interested...issues. Additionally, his films often display a unique preoccupation...the paradigm of European art films: an enigmatic, evocative...memory. Among Resnais other films are Muriel (1963); La guerre...
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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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Motion Picture Photography

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...image on a wall or screen. Film Editing In the first decade...could be warped, shooting the film at a slower speed than it was...cutting, or editing, strips of films did not destroy the viewers...editing possibilities and the theory and application of it for aesthetic...Odessa steps in the classic film The Battleship Potemkin (1925...
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Truffaut, FranÇois

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...fraNswa trufo , 1932 84, French film director and critic. Known...writer for the influential French film journal Cahiers du Cinema...his promotion of the auteur theory. The director, he believed...control over all aspects of the film. He was one of the first of...the late 1950s and 60s to make films that were less studio-bound...
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Superconductivity

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...also be superconductors. Thin films of normal metals and superconductors...and S. Schrieffer for their theory (known as the BCS theory) of classical superconductors. This quantum-mechanical theory proposes that at very low temperatures...with the lattice. Several theories of high-temperature superconductors...

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