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Today's film scholars draw from a dizzying range of theoretical perspectives-they're just as likely to cite philosopher Gilles Deleuze as they are to quote classic film theorist AndrÉ Bazin. To students first encountering them, these theoretical lenses for viewing film can seem exhilarating, but also overwhelming.
Thinking in the Dark introduces readers to twenty-one key theorists whose work has made a great impact on film scholarship today, including Rudolf Arnheim, Sergei Eisenstein, Michel Foucault, Siegfried Kracauer, and Judith Butler. Rather than just discussing each theorist's ideas in the abstract, the book shows how those concepts might be applied when interpreting specific films by including an analysis of both a classic film and a contemporary one. It thus demonstrates how theory can help us better appreciate films from all eras and genres: from Hugo to Vertigo, from City Lights to Sunset Blvd., and from Young Mr. Lincoln to A.I. and Wall-E.
The volume's contributors are all experts on their chosen theorist's work and, furthermore, are skilled at explaining that thinker's key ideas and terms to readers who are not yet familiar with them. Thinking in the Dark is not only a valuable resource for teachers and students of film, it's also a fun read, one that teaches us all how to view familiar films through new eyes.
Theorists examined in this volume are: Rudolf Arnheim, BÉla BalÁzs, Roland Barthes, AndrÉ Bazin, Walter Benjamin, Judith Butler, Stanley Cavell, Michel Chion, Gilles Deleuze, Jean Douchet, Sergei Eisenstein, Jean Epstein, Michel Foucault, Siegfried Kracauer, Jacques Lacan, Vachel Lindsay, Christian Metz, Hugo MÜnsterberg, V. F. Perkins, Jacques RanciÈre, and Jean Rouch.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
R. Barton Palmer and Murray Pomerance
Chapter 1: Hugo MÜnsterberg: Psychologizing Spectatorship between Laboratory and Theater
Jeremy Blatter
Chapter 2: Vachel Lindsay: Theory of Movie Hieroglyphics
Tom Gunning
Chapter 3: BÉla BalÁzs: Film Aesthetics and the Rituals of Romance
Steven Woodward
Chapter 4: Siegfried Kracauer: The Politics of Film Theory and Criticism
Johannes von Moltke
Chapter 5: Walter Benjamin: Afterimages of the Aura
Colin Williamson
Chapter 6: Jean Epstein: Cinema's Encounter with Modern Life
Sarah Keller
Chapter 7: Sergei Eisenstein: Attractions/Montage/Animation
Matthew Solomon
Chapter 8: Jacques Lacan: Giving All the Right Signs
Dominic Lennard
Chapter 9: Rudolf Arnheim: Cinema and Partial Illusion
Nathan Holmes
Chapter 10: Roland Barthes: What Films Show Us and What They Mean
William Brown
Chapter 11: Jean Rouch: The Camera as Provocateur
William Rothman
Chapter 12: AndrÉ Bazin: Dark Passage into the Mystery of Being
Dudley Andrew
Chapter 13: Gilles Deleuze: On Movement, Time, and Modernism
Will Scheibel
Chapter 14: Stanley Cavell: The Contingencies of Film and Its Theory
Daniel Morgan
Chapter 15: Michel Foucault: Murmur and Meditation
Tom Conley
Chapter 16: Jean Douchet: La Politique Hitchcock
R. Barton Palmer
Chapter 17: Christian Metz: Dreaming a Language in Cinema
Steven Rybin
Chapter 18: V. F. Perkins: Aesthetic Suspense
Alex Clayton
Chapter 19: Jacques RanciÈre: Equality and Aesthetics
Gilberto Perez
Chapter 20: Michel Chion: Listening to Cinema
Jonah Corne
Chapter 21: Judith Butler: Sex, Gender, and Subject Formation
Kristen Hatch
Works Cited
Notes on Contributors
Index
