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• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Preface
• Introduction
• The Antecedents of Film Theory
• Film and Film Theory: The Beginnings
• Early Silent Film Theory
• The Essence of Cinema
• The Soviet Montage-Theorists
• Russian Formalism and the Bakhtin School
• The Historical Avant-Gardes
• The Debate after Sound
• The Frankfurt School
• The Phenomenology of Realism
• The Cult of the Auteur
• The Americanization of Auteur Theory
• Third World Film and Theory
• The Advent of Structuralism
• The Question of Film Language
• Cinematic Specificity Revisited
• Interrogating Authorship and Genre
• 1968 and the Leftist Turn
• The Classic Realist Text
• The Presence of Brecht
• The Politics of Reflexivity
• The Search for Alternative Aesthetics
• From Linguistics to Psychoanalysis
• The Feminist Intervention
• The Poststructuralist Mutation
• Textual Analysis
• Interpretation and its Discontents
• From Text to Intertext
• The Amplification of Sound
• The Rise of Cultural Studies
• The Birth of the Spectator
• Cognitive and Analytic Theory
• Semiotics Revisited
• Just in Time: The Impact of Deleuze
• The Coming Out of Queer Theory
• Multiculturalism, Race, and Representation
• Third Cinema Revisited
• Film and the Postcolonial
• The Poetics and Politics of Postmodernism
• The Social Valence of Mass-Culture
• Post-Cinema: Digital Theory and the New Media
• The Pluralization of Film Theory
• Notes
• Select Bibliography
• Index
• End User License Agreement