Contributor
Stam, Robert, 1941-
Imprint:Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, 2000.
Descriptionxviii, 862 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:Dennis Potter and the question of the television author / Rosalind Coward. - To desire differently: Feminism and the French cinema / Sandy Flitterman-Lewis. - The unauthorized auteur today / Dudley Andrew. - The specifity of media in the arts / Noël Carroll. - For a semio-pragmatics of film / Roger Odin. - The scene of the screen: Envisioning cinematic and electronic "presence" / Vivian Sobchack. - Necessities and constraints: A pattern of technological change / Brian Winston. - Projections of sound on image / Michel Chion. - Modes of production: The televisual apparatus / John T. Caldwell. - Questions of genre / Steve Neale. - A semantic/syntactic approach to film genre / Rick Altmen. - The "force-field" of melodrama / Stuart Cunningham. - Film bodies: Gender, genre, and excess / Linda Williams. - The cinema of attraction: early film, its spectator, and the avant-garde / Tom Gunning. - Black American cinema: The new realism / Manthia Diawara. - Towards a third cinema / Fernardo Solanas and Octavio Gettino. - For an imperfect cinema / Julio García Espinosa. - Towards a critical theory of third world films / Teshome H. Gabriel. - Rethinking women's cinema: Aesthetics and feminist theory / Teresa de Lauretis. - Cowboys and indians: Perceptions of western films among American Indians and Anglos / JoEllen Shively. - Television news and its spectator / Robert Stam. - Addressing the spectator of a "third world" national cinema: The Bombay "social" film of the 1940s and 1950s / Ravi S. Vasudevan. - The imaginary signifier / Christian Metz. - The orthopsychic subject: Film theory and the reception of Lacan / Joan Copjec. - Feminism, film theory, and the bachelor machines / Constance Penley. - Visual pleasure and narrative cinema / Laura Mulvey. - Film and the masquerade: Theorizing the female spectator / Mary Ann Doane. - The oppositional gaze: Black female spectators / bell hooks. - Looking awry / Slavoj Zizek. - Constituents of a theory of the media / Hans Magnus Enzensberger. - Ideology, economy and the British cinema / John Hill. - Mass culture and the feminine: The "place" of television in film studies / Patrice Petro. - Heavenly bodies: Film stars and society / Richard Dyer. - The she-man: Postmodern bi-sexed performance in film and video / Chris Straayer. - Roseanne: Unruly woman as domestic goddess / Kathleen K. Rowe. - Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront / James Naremore. - Gender and culture of empire: Toward a feminist ethnography of the cinema / Ella Shohat. - Fantasies of the master race: Categories of stereotyping of American Indians in film / Ward Churchill. - Cultural identity and cinematic representation / Stuart Hall. - White priveledge and looking relations: Race and gender in feminist film theory / Jane Gaines. - White / Richard Dyer. - Television and postmodernism / Jim Collins. - Critical and textual hypermasculinity / Lynne Joyrich. - "In my weekend-only world...": Reconsidering fandom / Henry Jenkins.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [800]-830) and index.
