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	Film theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Film theory seeks to develop concise, systematic concepts that apply to the study of film/cinema as art.
		Classical film theory provides a structural framework to address classical issues of techniques, narrativity, diegesis, cinematic codes, "the image", genre, subjectivity, and authorship.
		In the 1960s film theory took up residence in academe, importing concepts from established disciplines like psychoanalysis, literary studies and linguistics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Film_theory (418 words)

	The Jagiellonian University Film Studies - Alicja Helman, "Polish Film Theory" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In contrast to their Silesian colleagues, the authors of Film i kontekst refer to the very matter of film, analyzing motifs characteristic of cinema in a series of analyses.The authors` basic intention was to locate the filmic motifs within general tradition and to reveal the mechanisms of cultural transformations.
		The options taken by Polish film theory in the post structural age, (which was the reaction to systemic studies), were not clear-cut and obvious, probably because of the short period of time that passed from structural to poststructural approach.
		Treating film mythology as a form of social mythology, Marszalek stresses the coexistence of film myths with stereotypes which together contribute (by means of conceptual collocations and standard symbolic representations) to the emergence of synthetic images, unique ready-made forms which facilitate the identification of reality.
	info-poland.buffalo.edu /uj/ujfilm/Film1.htm (9594 words)

	Genre Theory & Film Noir Films
		Yet, this is not to say all genres are culturally based or that a society’s culture can be Icon-ized by a particular genre, in particular when the influence is through Hollywood’s potential for audience manipulation in the guise of entertainment,5 for example, the Science Fiction or Film Noir movies.
		This feminist film theory has inherited the notion that desire is (re)produced as a kind of excess to representation.
		Films that are made through the Hollywood system and display certain features that are considered “against the grain” of the typical conventions governing text, have been referred to as "progressive."20 In progressive films the law is seen as corrupted and/or ineffectual and the family is absent.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Boulevard/6599/theory.htm (3293 words)

	FSfront.html
		The course focuses on the fundamentals of film study as an academic discipline, including formal analysis of film narrative and cinematic technique (the art of film), contextual approaches to film, study of various film genres, and rudimentary experience with film production (using videocams and computer editing).
		Students are exposed to a range of aesthetically and historically important films from a variety of film genres and cultural traditions.
		Films from India such as 1942 A Love Story, the Oscar-nominated Lagaan and the very recent The Rising: Ballad of Mangal Pandey will be analyzed as well as classics from the West such as Heat and Dust, Passage to India, and Gunga Din.
	www.dickinson.edu /departments/film (1656 words)

	Film Theory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		From that point on, especially with the expansion of film departments and faculties at institutions of higher learning, film theory and criticism proliferated at a rapid rate, and film journals became as much a place for heated debate on the issues of art and aesthetics as the learned journals were for essays on literature.
		The film viewer is seen as the subject of a "gaze" that is largely "constructed" by the film itself, where what is on screen becomes the object of that subject's desire.
		The theory stresses the subject's longing for a completeness which the film may appear to offer through identification with an image; in fact, according to Lacanian theory, identification with the image is never anything but an illusion and the subject is always split simply by virtue of coming into existence.
	www.jahsonic.com /Film_theory.html (6592 words)

	Piano Lessons
		The film’s characterisation of the colonisers and the absence of a strong voice for the colonised came under scrutiny.
		As a point of departure he uses figurations of women writing in the two films mapping their understandings of and relationships to women writers and women’s writings in order to argue for a reconsideration of how melodramatic structures operate within the woman’s film genre.
		In both films, the efforts of the women to write may be violently interrupted, but ultimately have a supernatural charge which lingers eerily - like a ghost of the sacrificed woman - in the minds of the viewers.
	www.geocities.com /f_coombs/pianobook.html (3771 words)

	Film Genres
		Musical/dance films are cinematic forms that emphasize full-scale scores or song and dance routines in a significant way (usually with a musical or dance performance integrated as part of the film narrative), or they are films that are centered on combinations of music, dance, song or choreography.
		War films acknowledge the horror and heartbreak of war, letting the actual combat fighting (against nations or humankind) on land, sea, or in the air provide the primary plot or background for the action of the film.
		All films have at least one major genre, although there are a number of films that are considered crossbreeds or hybrids with three or four overlapping genre (or sub-genre) types that identify them.
	www.filmsite.org /genres.html (1443 words)

	Journal of Popular Film and Television: FILM/GENRE - Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Film/Genre proposes that film genres are not as stable or as distinct as many critics and scholars have claimed.
		A re-creation process is used by the film industry in developing a film genre and often employs a variety of sources.
		Chapter 10, titled "What Communication Model Is Appropriate for Genres?" which is devoted to forming a new communication model for genres, though both enlightening and well argued, provokes the densest reading of an otherwise highly effective and intelligent discussion of film genre theory to date.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0412/is_2_29/ai_77609484 (865 words)

	Genre Theory
		French word for type or kind; genre theory deals with the ways in which a work may be considered to belong to a class of related works.
		Genre theory deals with the ways in which a work may be considered to belong to a class of related works.
		In film and television some genres are based on story content (the war film), others are borrowed from their literary cousins (comedy, melodrama) or from other media (the musical).
	www.colostate.edu /Depts/Speech/rccs/theory27.htm (724 words)

	Drive-Through Film Theory
		The auteur system can be contrasted to the genre system, in which films are rated on the basis of the expression of one person, usually the director, because his/her indelible style, authoring vision or 'signature' dictates the personality, look, and feel of the film.
		The genre used by a particular media is also paradigms, which derive meaning from the ways in which they differ from alternative media: the signifier could remain the same, but the sign itself is altered by a change of its "frame."
		In film, our analysis of a particular shot is paradigmatic when we compare it (not necessarily consciously) with the use of a viable alternative kind of shot.
	afronord.tripod.com /theory.html (3629 words)

	Andrea Braidt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Her research focus lies on feminist film theory, genre theory and queer (film) theory, since 1997 she teaches these subjects at the universities of Vienna, Innsbruck, Graz and since 2003, at CEU in Budapest.
		She was Junior Fellow at the International Research Centre Cultural Studies, Vienna and is Co-Founder of the Association of feminist Scholars in Austria.
		Andrea B. Braidt is currently a Visiting Professor at the Department of Gender Studies, and she teaches the courses From 'Visual Pleasure' to 'Passsionate Detachment.' Feminist Film Theory and/in the Cinema.
	www.ceu.hu /gend/Braidt (146 words)

	Teaching Cognitive Science and the Arts II
		The study of emotion in film can easily be linked to a discussion of genre, an accessible and interesting topic for students.
		Numerous scholars in film studies have adopted the view that film either has or is a language, but the relevant conception of language is fuzzy at best; Saussure’s account of linguistics has been extremely influential, and students might benefit from exploring implications of replacing his theory with, say, Chomsky’s.
		Also, brain-based theories do not readily fit with recent emphases in film theory on gender, class, and race as factors in aesthetic experience (see Plantinga).
	www.aesthetics-online.org /ideas/freeland2.html (1979 words)

	Cinematic genre -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		to an exhibitor over a hundred films a year to keep the theaters fresh.
		hundreds of (A film about life in the western United States during the period of exploration and development) Westerns and no longer needed the same extensive setup for the showdown.
		While Western films are an easy example, many other (A class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique) genres developed equally complex sets of conventions.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ci/cinematic_genre.htm (426 words)

	Film Theory concepts that apply to film and video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Film theory seeks to develop concise, systematic concepts that apply to film and video.
		Classical film theory provides a structural framework to address classical issues of techniques, narrativity -, diegesis -, cinematic codes, "the image", genre, subjectivity, and authorship.
		Auteur Theory is similar to film history theory but auteur theory focuses on historical developments, rather than actual movies as Film History Theory does.
	www.cinemateca.org /movies/film_theory.htm (140 words)

	Oklahoma State University Film Program -- Faculty -- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He is interested in American independent cinema and gender studies, and recently led a graduate seminar entitled "Theorizing Punk," employing the theories of Jacques Lacan, Roland Barthes and others to understand cinema's various representations of Punk music and subculture.
		He is currently at work on a book on Robert Bresson, which situates Bresson in relation to radical film and literary cultures of France and Russia, as well as in relation to revolutionary culture.
		She has taught courses in Film History; Race and Gender in Television; Film and Post-Colonial Discourse; Islam, Culture and Society; and Critical Media Studies.
	english.okstate.edu /film/faculty.htm (746 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Film/Genre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Recognizing that the very term "genre" has different meanings for different groups, he bases his new genre theory on the uneasy competitive yet complimentary relationship among genre users and discusses a huge range of films from The Great Train Robbery to Star Wars and from The Jazz Singer to The Player.
		Altman assumes an ignorant reader in his spotty descriptions of genre and its development and subsequently deluges the reader with bizarre references and highly conservative opinions presented as well-understood fact.
		Genre history is touched upon but never developed, and chapter divisions are somewhat random.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0851707173?v=glance (959 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Additional Materials/articles on film theory/history/terminology and materials necessary to producing good composition will be (1) on reserve at the library and/or (2) on line for access.
		While commonly one of the most popular media, film is still only marginally understood or analyzed as a legitimate critical field of study.
		To this end the class will critically view films from representative periods, discuss these films, learn basic film terms and theories and produce (4) Four critical research essays, take (4) Four examinations in film theory and terminology, and produce Two (2) brief oral presentation on a topic of film theory/genre.
	coscc.cc.tn.us /~lenig/film.html (1095 words)

	UCI E&CL Theory (Aesthetics/Text/Genre/Film) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		That so much of contemporary theory is based upon a misunderstanding and misreading of the Phenomenology is demonstrable, but what remains enigmatic and something of a "secret" is the productive nature of such misreading.
		We then shall be concerned with the emergence of modern hermeneutics as advocated by Friedrich Schleiermacher, who called the authority of the canon into question and marked a stage at which interpretation became self-reflective owing to the fact that the space between a foreign text and its understanding had to be bridged.
		Their theories had preponderant importance for the modern concept of the subject: the subject of science, the subject of language, the subject of aesthetics, the subject of democracy.
	www.humanities.uci.edu /english/graduate/topics/theorytext.html (6595 words)

	UW Dept. of Comparative Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A specialist in silent-era cinema, her interests span the study of film genre and film theory, histories of experimental cinema and new digital media, mass cultural politics and feminist theories.
		Dedicated to early cinema's preservation and restoration agendas, she serves on the executive board for the Thanhouser Film Company Preservation, Inc., and is an advisory board member for the Women Film Pioneer Project based at Duke University.
		In spring 2003, she received the Katherine Singer Kovàcs Award for the Outstanding Essay in English Language Media Studies, presented by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, for her essay "Technologies of Early Stardom and the Extraordinary Body," Camera Obscura 48 16:3 (2002): 9-56.
	depts.washington.edu /complit/faculty/bean_jenn.html (187 words)

	FILM THEORY/CTA 356
		"Constructivism in Cognitive Film Theory" Film and Philosophy, 2.
		You are asked to choose a film in the Haas Library holdings and examine it from a particular theoretical perspective (For example,"The Gaze in Jezebel" or "The Semiotics of Clothing in Young and Innocent").You will be asked to identify the major question(s) the theory attempts to answer, and answer them in terms of this film.
		The year of the film is put in parenthesis following the film the first time the film is mentioned.
	people.wcsu.edu /mccarneyh/acad/356syl.html (473 words)

	Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings
		This is a must-have reader for film studies.
		These are some of the key essays that have shaped film studies criticism over the last century.
		Some of the readings are difficult precisely because they are theory and meant for an academic or professional audience.
	www.golfbugs.com /GolfBookstore/isbn0195105982.html (228 words)

	Film - Special Effects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Special Effects SFX, film technique, film theory, genre, film production, people search, movie reviews, people finder.
		Special effects (or SFX) are used in the film and entertainment industry to create effects that cannot be achieved by normal means, such as travel to other star systems.
		Often several different techniques are used together in a single scene or shot to achieve the desired effect.
	www.cinemateca.org /movies/special_effects.htm (199 words)

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