{"id":583,"date":"2014-10-02T16:03:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T15:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/dev\/?p=583"},"modified":"2014-11-25T15:36:52","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T15:36:52","slug":"what-is-film-theory-an-introduction-to-contemporary-debates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/?p=583","title":{"rendered":"What is Film Theory? An Introduction to Contemporary Debates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/596px-Truffaut-BeauSerge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-865 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/596px-Truffaut-BeauSerge-425x428.jpg\" alt=\"By Nijs, Jac. de \/ Anefo. [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons\" width=\"425\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/596px-Truffaut-BeauSerge-425x428.jpg 425w, http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/596px-Truffaut-BeauSerge-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/596px-Truffaut-BeauSerge-201x203.jpg 201w, http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/596px-Truffaut-BeauSerge-300x302.jpg 300w, http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/596px-Truffaut-BeauSerge-32x32.jpg 32w, http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/596px-Truffaut-BeauSerge-64x64.jpg 64w, http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/596px-Truffaut-BeauSerge-96x96.jpg 96w, http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/596px-Truffaut-BeauSerge-128x128.jpg 128w, http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/596px-Truffaut-BeauSerge-120x120.jpg 120w, http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/596px-Truffaut-BeauSerge.jpg 596w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gary Bettinson and Richard Rushton. McGraw-Hill: Open University Press,&nbsp;2010.<\/p>\n<p><em>What is Film Theory?<\/em> outlines the discipline\u2019s key theoretical concepts, perspectives, and traditions, and critically examines the assertions posited by exemplary film theorists and philosophers of&nbsp;film.<\/p>\n<p>A step-by-step approach to these issues guides the reader through the central topics of film theory. Beginning with a&nbsp;discussion of structuralism and semiotics, and moving through debates on psychoanalysis, feminism, Screen theory, and cultural studies, the authors then examine the perspectives of \u2018post-theory\u2019, cognitivism, and historical poetics, as well as recent developments such as audience research and the \u2018cinema of attractions\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Analysis of the major theories is supported with detailed and wide-ranging case studies of particular films, including <em>Singin\u2019 in the Rain<\/em>, <em>The Searchers<\/em>, <em>Tout va bien<\/em>, <em>Jaws<\/em>, <em>Do the Right Thing<\/em>, <em>Brokeback Mountain<\/em>, and <em>Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street<\/em>. These case studies are accompanied by a&nbsp;series of illustrative film and production stills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Bettinson and Richard Rushton. McGraw-Hill: Open University Press,&nbsp;2010. What is Film Theory? outlines the discipline\u2019s key theoretical concepts, perspectives, and traditions, and critically examines the assertions posited by exemplary film theorists and philosophers of&nbsp;film. A&nbsp;step-by-step approach to these issues guides the reader through the central topics of&nbsp;film&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":865,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"coauthors":[44,59],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book","post_format-post-format-image","column","twocol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":867,"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions\/867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=583"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}