Film Studies

Film Gender

Film Genres

Film Studies: General

The Film Viewer

 

 

Film and Gender

Essays and Articles

'All That Patriarchy Allows : Gay Figures and Female Desire in All That Heaven Allows':
    Craig Watts

Articles on Women in Cinema (Queen's University Film Studies Student Papers)

Batman's Camp: Freya Johnson (Bad Subjects)

'Building the Feminine: Feminist Film Theory and Female Spectatorship':
     Gillian Swanson (Continuum)

'Can't Hollywood Treat Gays as Normal People?': Richard Corliss (Time Magazine)

'Laura Mulvey Against the Grain: A Critical Assessment of the Psychoanalytic
     Feminist Approach to Film': Terje Skjerdal

Machines and Male Hysteria in the Cinema of the Eighties: Marj Kibby

'Marketing Masculinity in Jean-Claude Van Damme's Universal Soldier':
     Jeff Akeley (Bad Subjects)

Notes on Laura Mulvey's 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema': Kim Richards

'Notes on "The Gaze"': Daniel Chandler

'On Cinema and Perversion': Berys Gaut

 


Film Genres

Essays and Articles

"Fair Dinkum Fillums": the Crocodile Dundee Phenomenon': Tom O'Regan

Film Genres and Sub-Genres: Philip C Congleton

Genre and Film: Carol Laseur (Continuum)

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) Genre Theory and John Ford's Stagecoach: Katherine Lawrie

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) An Introduction to Genre Theory: Daniel Chandler

 


Film Studies: General

Essays and Articles

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) Asian Cinema (Continuum Vol 2, No 1)

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) Criticism and Ideology in Contemporary Film Theory: David N Rodowick

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'A Brief Guide to Watching Movies': John Harrington

'Cinematic Representation of Mental Processes': Haim Callev
     (from The Stream of Consciousness in the Films of Alain Resnais)

'Constructivism in Cognitive Film Theory': Kevin Sweeney

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Documentary and Self-Representation in the Post-Verité Age': Michael Renov

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'The End of Philosophy and the Rise of Films': Michael Bischoff

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) "Fair Dinkum Fillums": the Crocodile Dundee Phenomenon': Tom O'Regan

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) Film and Meaning: Ian Douglas

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Film and Television Theory': Ken Sanes

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Grammar' of Television and Film: Daniel Chandler

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'A History of Motion Pictures': Vito Russo

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) '(How) Does Film Theory Work?': Toby Miller (Continuum)

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Imagining Futures, Dramatizing Fears: Technology in Literature and Film':
     Daniel Chandler

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Imagining Hollywood' (The Star System): Sara Kittelty

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) Narrative Conventions in Classical Hollywood Cinema: Notes by Julia Lesage

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) New Technologies of the Screen: Philip Hayward & Tana Wollen

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Notes on "The Gaze"': Daniel Chandler

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) Performance and Star Image in Film and Television: Jeremy G Butler
    (from Star Texts: Image and Performance in Film and Television)

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Popular British Cinema': Tom Ryall (Close Up)

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Post-Production in Motion Pictures': Greg Edgar

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Theory Goes to the Movies': Jonathan Sterne (Bad Subjects)

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) Video Images and Ethnography: Ron Burnett (Continuum)

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction': Walter Benjamin

 


The Film Viewer

Essays and Articles

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Building the Feminine: Feminist Film Theory and Female Spectatorship':
    Gillian Swanson (Continuum)

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Constructivism in Cognitive Film Theory': Kevin W Sweeney (Film and Philosophy)

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) Culturally Variant Readings of Crocodile Dundee: Stephen Crofts (Continuum)

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'The Film Viewer: An Unknown Entity': Alicija Helman (Continuum)

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Grammar' of Television and Film: Daniel Chandler

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'The Implicated Spectator': Betsy Weiss
    (review of Judith Mayne's Cinema and Spectatorship, Semiotic Review of Books)

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Laura Mulvey Against the Grain: A Critical Assessment of the
    Psychoanalytic Feminist Approach to Film': Terje Skjerdal

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Movie Pleasures and the Spectator's Experience:
     Toward a Cognitive Approach': Carl Plantinga (Film and Philosophy)

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Notes on "The Gaze"': Daniel Chandler

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) Reading a Film Sequence: Eric Rentschler and Anton Kaes

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'The Re-Emergence of Phenomenological Theories of Film':
     Kevin W Sweeney (Film and Philosophy)

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Viewer "Identification" with Characters in Television and Film Fiction':
     Peter van Beneden

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'The Viewer Viewed: The Reception of Ethnographic Films': Jay Ruby

 

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