Film Theory by Robert Stam
An Introduction
A concise, historically grounded overview of major movements and methods in cinema studies that traces debates from formalist and realist aesthetics through semiotics, psychoanalysis, Marxism, feminism and poststructuralism, explaining key concepts like montage, mise-en-scène, narrative and spectatorship. The text adopts an interdisciplinary, politically engaged stance, showing how film form and industry practices shape and are shaped by ideology, race, gender and colonial relations while critiquing Eurocentric canons and highlighting alternative cinemas and popular genres. With clear examples and critical readings, it equips readers to analyze cinematic meaning and social effects by linking close formal analysis to broader cultural and historical contexts.
- Published
- 2000
- Nationality
- American
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- Original Language
- English
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