Product Description: We live in a world of the image. In many ways images have replaced words as the defining aspect of cultural identity, while at the same time they have become part of our global culture. The rapidly developing discipline of visual cultural studies has become the key area for examining the issues of the image...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Madness and Cinema offers a radical approach to the issue of what happens when we watch films. By exploring cinema's relationship to meaning and proposing new ways to read cinema through psychoanalysis, this book develops the idea that the spectator engages in what has previously been described as an act of madness...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: New Developments in Film Theory investigates how film studies have been influenced by major theoretical advances in postmodernism and post-structuralism while revealing how the study of film has affected those critical movements. Covering topics such as love, terror, the body, and passion, and theories such as feminism, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and semiotics, the author provides new and alternative methods for analyzing film...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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