Film Studies
Critical Approaches
Edited by John Hill and Pamela Church Gibson
Consultant Editors: Richard Dyer, E. Ann Kaplan, and Paul Willemen
Table of Contents
Introduction, John Hill
Part One: Critical Approaches
1. Introduction to Film Studies, Richard Dyer
Studying the Film Text
2. The Film Text and Film Form, Robert Phillip Kolker
Readings:
Written on the Wind, Robin Wood
Citizen Kane, Peter Wollen
3. Film Acting, Paul McDonald
4. Film Costume, Pamela Church Gibson
5. Film Music, Claudia Gorbman
The Film Text: Theoretical Developments
6. Classic Film Theory and Semiotics, Anthony Easthope
7. Formalism and Neo-formalism, Ian Christie
Reading:
Poetry and Prose in Cinema, Victor Schlovsky
8. Impressionism, Surrealism, and Film Theory, Robert B. Ray
9. Film and Psychocanalysis, Barbara Creed
10. Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction, Peter Brunette
11. Film and Postmodernism, John Hill
Film Text and Context: Gender, Ideology, and Identities
12. Marxism and Film, Chuck Kleinhans
Reading:
The Political Thriller Debate, John Hill
13. Feminism and Film, Patricia White
Readings:
Rebecca, Mary Anne Doane
Rebecca, Tania Modleski
14. Gay and Lesbian Criticism, Anneke Smelik
15. Queer Theory, Alexander Doty
16. Pornography, Laura Kipnis
17. Race, Ethnicity, and Film, Robyn Wiegman
18. Film and Cultural Identity, Rey Chow
Film Text and Context: Culture, History, and Reception
19. Film and History, Dudley Andrew
20. Sociology and Film, Andrew Tudor
21. Cultural Studies and Film, Graeme Turner
22. Film Audiences, Jostein Gripsrud
23. Hermeneutics, Reception Aesthetics, and Film Interpretation, Noel King
