Contents
Contributors
Introduction
Part One. State of the Art
1. Contemporary Film Studies and the Vicissitudes of Grand Theory (David Bordwell)
2. Prospects for Film Theory: A Personal Assessment (Noël Carroll)
Part Two. Film Theory and Aesthetics
3. Psychoanalytic Film Theory and the Problem of the Missing Spectator (Stephen Prince)
4. Convention, Construction, and Cinematic Vision (David Bordwell)
5. Is a Cognitive Approach to the Avant-garde Cinema Perverse? (James Peterson)
6. The Logic and Legacy of Brechtianism (Murray Smith)
7. Characterization and Fictional Truth in the Cinema (Paisley Livingston)
8. Empathy and (Film) Fiction (Alex Neill)
9. Feminist Frameworks for Horror Films (Cynthia A. Freeland)
10. Apt Feelings, or Why "Women's Films" Aren't Trivial (Flo Leibowitz)
11. Unheard Melodies? A Critique of Psychoanalytic Theories of Film Music (Jeff Smith)
12. Film Music and Narrative Agency (Jerrold Levinson)
13. Nonfiction Film and Postmodernist Skepticism (Noël Carroll)
14. Moving Pictures and the Rhetoric of Nonfiction Film: Two Approaches (Carl Plantinga)
15. Film, Reality, and Illusion (Gregory Currie)
Part Three. Psychology of Film
16. The Case for an Ecological Metatheory (Joseph Anderson and Barbara Anderson)
17. Movies in the Mind's Eye (Julian Hochberg and Virginia Brooks)
18. Notes on Audience Response (Richard J. Gerrig and Deborah A. Prentice)
Part Four. History and Analysis
19. Toward a New Media Economics (Douglas Gomery)
20. Columbia Pictures: The Making of a Motion Picture Major, 1930−1943 (Tino Balio)
21. "A Brief Romantic Interlude": Dick and Jane Go to 3 1/2 Seconds of the Classical Hollywood Cinema (Richard Malthy)
22. The Jazz Singer's Reception in the Media and at the Box Office (Donald Crafton)
23. Jameson and "Global Aesthetics" (Michael Walsh)
24. Reconstructing Japanese Film (Donald Kirihara)
25. Danish Cinema and the Politics of Recognition (Mette Hjort)
26. Whose Apparatus? Problems of Film Exhibition and History (Vance Kepley, Jr.)
Selected Bibliography
Index