How a Film Theory Got Lost and Other Mysteries in Cultural Studies

by Robert B. Ray

How a Film Theory Got Lost and Other Mysteries in Cultural Studies
Robert B. Ray
Foreword by James Naremore

Challenges accepted ideas about film and cultural studies.

In the 1920s, when film criticism was as new as the cinema itself, a particular way of thinking about the movies developed in Paris. The cinema, this theory suggested, turns on photography's automatism, the revolutionary fact that for the first time in human history...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253214386
• ISBN13: 9780253214386
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher