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Theorizing the Moving Image » (1st Edition)

Authors: Noel Carroll, David Bordwell
ISBN-13: 9780521466073, ISBN-10: 0521466075
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: May 1996
Edition: 1st Edition

A selection of essays on film and film theory by a leading critic.

	Acknowledgments
	Foreword
	Introduction
I	Medium Specificity Arguments and the Self-Consciously Invented Arts: Film, Video, and Photography	3
II	The Specificity of Media in the Arts	25
III	Concerning Uniqueness Claims for Photographic and Cinematographic Representation	37
IV	Defining the Moving Image	49
V	The Power of Movies	78
VI	Toward a Theory of Film Suspense	94
VII	As the Dial Turns: Notes on Soap Operas	118
VIII	Toward a Theory of Point-of-View Editing: Communication, Emotion, and the Movies	125
IX	Notes on Movie Music	139
X	Notes on the Sight Gag	146
XI	Avant-Garde Film and Film Theory	162
XII	Causation, the Ampliation of Movement and Avant-Garde Film	169
XIII	Language and Cinema: Preliminary Notes for a Theory of Verbal Images	187
XIV	A Note on Film Metaphor	212
XV	From Real to Reel: Entangled in Nonfiction Film	224
XVI	Reply to Carol Brownson and Jack C. Wolf	253
XVII	The Image of Women in Film: A Defense of a Paradigm	260
XVIII	Film, Rhetoric, and Ideology	275
XIX	Film/Mind Analogies: The Case of Hugo Munsterberg	293
XX	Hans Richter's Struggle for Film	305
XXI	A Brief Comment on Frampton's Notion of Metahistory	313
XXII	Cognitivism, Contemporary Film Theory and Method: A Response to Warren Buckland	321
XXIII	Cracks in the Acoustic Mirror	336
XXIV	A Reply to Health	343
XXV	Replies to Hammett and Allen	360
XXVI	Film History and Film Theory: An Outline for an Institutional Theory of Film	375
XXVII	Art, Film and Ideology: A Response to Blaine Allan	392
XXVIII	Toward a Theory of Film Editing	403
	Index	421