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  • The Major Film Theories

    An Introduction

    by J. Dudley Andrew ...
    Series series Galaxy Books
    Both a history of film theory and an introduction to the work of the most important writers in the field, Andrew's volume reveals the bases of thought of such major theorists as Munsterberg, Arnheim, Eisenstein, Balazs, Kracauer, Bazin, Mitry, and Metz. ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • André Bazin on Documentary

    Cinema's Urge to Explore

    by André Bazin ...
    Documentary is at the core of André Bazin’s powerful views of cinema. This collection, curated by renowned film scholar Dudley Andrew, brings to English-language readers sixty-two articles in which Bazin interrogated films about geography, history, animals, painting, and, especially, distant lands and peoples. Both an advocate and critic of popular science and exotic travelogues, Bazin applauded ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Concepts in Film Theory

    by J. Dudley Andrew ...
    Concepts in Film Theory is a continuation of Dudley Andrew's classic, The Major Film Theories. In writing now about contemporary theory, Andrew focuses on the key concepts in film study -- perception, representation, signification, narrative structure, adaptation, evaluation, identification, figuration, and interpretation. Beginning with an introductory chapter on the current state of film theory, ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • French Cinema

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Dudley Andrew ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    It is often claimed that the French invented cinema. Dominating the production and distribution of cinema until World War 1, when they were supplanted by Hollywood, the French cinema industry encompassed all genres, from popular entertainment to avant-garde practice. The French invented the "auteur" and the "ciné-club"; they incubated criticism from the 1920s to our own day that is unrivalled; and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • French Cinema

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Dudley Andrew ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    It is often claimed that the French invented cinema. Dominating the production and distribution of cinema until World War 1, when they were supplanted by Hollywood, the French cinema industry encompassed all genres, from popular entertainment to avant-garde practice. The French invented the "auteur" and the "ciné-club"; they incubated criticism from the 1920s to our own day that is unrivalled; and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Mists of Regret

    Culture and Sensibility in Classic French Film

    by Dudley Andrew ...
    Just before World War II, French cinema reached a high point that has been dubbed the style of "poetic realism." Working with unforgettable actors like Jean Gabin and Arletty, directors such as Renoir, Carné, Gremillon, Duvivier, and Chenal routinely captured the prizes for best film at every festival and in every country, and their accomplishments led to general agreement that the French were the ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Fredric Jameson and Film Theory

    Marxism, Allegory, and Geopolitics in World Cinema

    by Keith B. Wagner, Jeremi Szaniawski, Michael Cramer, Dudley Andrew, John Mackay, Paul Coates, Pansy Duncan, Naoki Yamamoto0, Mercedes Vazquez1, Alvin K. Wong2, Dan Hassler-Forest3, Mike Wayne4, Fredric Jameson5 ...
    Frederic Jameson and Film Theory is the first collection of its kind, it assesses and critically responds to Fredric Jameson’s remarkable contribution to film theory. The essays assembled explore key Jamesonian concepts—such as totality, national allegory, geopolitics, globalization, representation, and pastiche—and his historical schema of realism, modernism, and postmodernism, considering, in ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Sansho Dayu (Sansho the Bailiff)

    by Dudley Andrew, Carole Cavanaugh ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    Kenji Mizoguchi's masterpiece Sanshô Dayû(1954) retells a classic Japanese folktale about an eleventh-century feudal official forced into exile by his political enemies. In his absence, his children fall under the corrupting influence of the malevolent bailiff Sansho. In their study of the film, film scholar Dudley Andrew and Japanese literature professor Carole Cavanaugh highlight the cultural, ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • Thinking in the Dark

    Cinema, Theory, Practice

    by Murray Pomerance, R. Barton Palmer, Jeremy T. Blatter, Tom Gunning, Steven Woodward, Johannes von Moltke, Colin Williamson, Sarah Keller, Matthew Solomon0, Dominic Lennard1, Nathan Holmes2, William Brown3, William Rothman4, Dudley Andrew5, Will Scheibel6, Daniel Morgan7, Tom Conley8, Steven Rybin9, Alex Clayton0, Gilberto Perez1, Jonah Corne2, Kristen Hatch3 ...
    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 ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • André Bazin

    by Dudley Andrew ...
    André Bazin, often dubbed the father of the French New Wave, has had an immense impact on film art. He is credited with almost single-handedly establishing the study of film as an accepted intellectual pursuit. The journal that he founded in 1951, Cahiers du Cinéma, remains the most influential archive of cinema criticism. He remains one of the most read, most studied, and most engaging figures ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • The Major Film Theories

    An Introduction

    by J. Dudley Andrew ...
    Series series Galaxy Books
    Both a history of film theory and an introduction to the work of the most important writers in the field, Andrew's volume reveals the bases of thought of such major theorists as Munsterberg, Arnheim, Eisenstein, Balazs, Kracauer, Bazin, Mitry, and Metz. ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Opening Bazin

    Postwar Film Theory and Its Afterlife

    Edited by Dudley Andrew ...
    With the full range of his voluminous writings finally viewable, André Bazin seems more deserving than ever to be considered the most influential of all writers on film. His brief career, 1943-58, helped bring about the leap from classical cinema to the modern art of Renoir, Welles, and neorealism. Founder of Cahiers du Cinéma, he encouraged the future New Wave directors to confront his telltale ... Read more

    $35.09 USD