Film theory reader debates and arguments

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Film theory : a history of debates / Marc Furstenau -- The future of film theory : a debate. An elegy for theory / D.N. Rodowick -- Theory, philosophy, and film studies / Malcolm Turvey -- Arguments with early film theory. The psychology of the photoplay / Hugo Münsterberg -- Film/mind analogies : the case of Hugo Münsterberg / Noël Carroll -- Visible man, or the culture of film / Béla Bálazs -- Bálazs : realist or modernist? / Malcolm Turvey -- The ontology of the photographic image / André Bazin -- The evolution of the language of cinema / André Bazin -- Rethinking Bazin : ontology and realist aesthetics / Daniel Morgan -- Classic debates. The cinema : language or language system? / Christian Metz -- The semiology of the cinema / Peter Wollen -- Recapitulation of images and signs / Gilles Deleuze -- Visual pleasure and narrative cinema / Laura Mulvey -- Is the gaze male? / E. Ann Kaplan -- Afterthoughts on "visual pleasure and narrative cinema" / Laura Mulvey -- The oppositional gaze : Black female spectators / Bell Hooks -- Recent arguments. Digital dinema and the history of a moving image / Lev Manovich -- Moving away from the index : cinema and the impression of reality / Tom Gunning -- The end of cinema : multimedia and technological Change / Anne Friedberg -- Digital cinema : a false revolution / John Belton.