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Tables of Contents for Film and Theory
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
x
Introduction
xiv
Robert Stam
Part I The Author
Introduction
1
6
Robert Stam
Dennis Potter and the Question of the Television Author
7
9
Rosalind Coward
To Desire Differently: Feminism and the French Cinema
16
4
Sandy Flitterman-Lewis
The Unauthorized Auteur Today
20
19
Dudley Andrew
Part II Film Language/Specificity
Introduction
31
8
Robert Stam
The Specificity of Media in the Arts
39
15
Noel Carroll
For a Semio-Pragmatics of Film
54
13
Roger Odin
The Scene of the Screen: Envisioning Cinematic and Electronic ``Presence''
67
35
Vivian Sobchack
Part III The Image and Technology
Introduction
85
17
Toby Miller
Robert Stam
Necessities and Constraints: A Pattern of Technological Change
102
9
Brian Winston
Projections of Sound on Image
111
14
Michel Chion
Modes of Production: The Televisual Apparatus
125
32
John T. Caldwell
Part IV Text and Intertext
Introduction
145
12
Robert Stam
Questions of Genre
157
22
Steve Neale
A Semantic/Syntactic Approach to Film Genre
179
12
Rick Altman
The ``Force-Field'' of Melodrama
191
16
Stuart Cunningham
Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess
207
22
Linda Williams
Part V The Question of Realism
Introduction
223
6
Robert Stam
The Cinema of Attraction: Early Film, Its Spectator, and the Avant-Grade
229
7
Tom Gunning
Black American Cinema: The New Realism
236
29
Manthia Diawara
Part VI Alternative Aesthetics
Introduction
257
8
Robert Stam
Towards a Third Cinema
265
22
Fernando Solanas
Octavio Gettino
For an Imperfect Cinema
287
11
Julio Garcia Espinosa
Towards a Critical Theory of Third World Films
298
19
Teshome H. Gabriel
Rethinking Women's Cinema: Aesthetics and Feminist Theory
317
28
Teresa de Lauretis
Part VII The Historical Spectator/Audience
Introduction
337
8
Toby Miller
Cowboys and Indians: Perceptions of Western Films Among American Indians and Anglos
345
16
Jo Ellen Shively
Television News and Its Spectator
361
20
Robert Stam
Addressing the Spectator of a ``Third World'' National Cinema: The Bombay ``Social'' Film of the 1940s and 1950s
381
27
Ravi S. Vasudevan
Part VIII Apparatus Theory
Introduction
403
5
Toby Miller
The Imaginary Signifier
408
29
Christian Metz
The Orthopsychic Subject: Film Theory and the Reception of Lacan
437
19
Joan Copjec
Feminism, Film Theory, and the Bachelor Machines
456
27
Constance Penley
Part IX The Nature of the Gaze
Introduction
475
8
Toby Miller
Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
483
12
Laura Mulvey
Film and the Masquerade: Theorizing the Female Spectator
495
15
Mary Ann Doane
The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators
510
14
bell hooks
Looking Awry
524
28
Slavoj Zizek
Part X Class and the Culture Industries
Introduction
539
13
Toby Miller
Constituents of a Theory of the Media
552
13
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Ideology, Economy and the British Cinema
565
12
John Hill
Mass Culture and the Feminine: The ``Place'' of Television in Film Studies
577
26
Patrice Petro
Part XI Stars and Performane
Introduction
595
8
Toby Miller
Heavenly Bodies: Film Stars and Society
603
15
Richard Dyer
The She-Man: Postmodern Bi-Sexed Performance in Film and Video
618
16
Chris Straayer
Roseanne: Unruly Woman as Domestic Goddess
634
10
Kathleen K. Rowe
Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront
644
25
James Naremore
Part XII Permutations of Difference
Introduction
661
8
Robert Stam
Gender and Culture of Empire: Toward a Feminist Ethnography of the Cinema
669
28
Ella Shohat
Fantasies of the Master Race: Categories of Stereotyping of American Indians in Film
697
7
Ward Churchill
Cultural Identity and Cinematic Representation
704
11
Stuart Hall
White Privilege and Looking Relations: Race and Gender in Feminist Film Theory
715
18
Jane Gaines
White
733
25
Richard Dyer
Part XIII The Politics of Postmodernism
Introduction
753
5
Robert Stam
Television and Postmodernism
758
16
Jim Collins
Critical and Textual Hypermasculinity
774
17
Lynne Joyrich
``In My Weekend-Only World...'': Reconsidering Fandom
791
9
Henry Jenkins
Selected Bibliography
800
31
Toby Miller
Robert Stam
Index
831