Reinventing film studies

Abstract

Part 1: Really useful theory from aesthetics to semiotics and half-way back again why theory? film theory and the revolt against master narratives case study - Singin' in the Rain - a study of interpretation who (and what) is it for? Part 2: Film as mass culture dream factory the publicness of cinema case study - the political culture of address in a Transitional - Indian popular cinema reception theory and audience research - the mystery of the vampire's kiss re-examining stardom - questions of texts, bodies, and performances. Part 3: questions of aesthetics after the classic, the classical and ideology - the difference of realism rethinking genre case study - judging audiences, the case of the trial movie introducing film evaluation Style posture and idiom - Tarantino's figures of masculinity. Part 4: The return to history what is film history? Animated Pictures - tales of cinema's forgotten future, after one hundred years of film the mass production of the senses - classical cinema as cenacular modernism case study - discipline and fun - psycho and postmodern cinema. Part 5: Cinema in the age of global multi-media film theory and spectatorship in the age of the posts case study - digging an old well - the labour of social fantasy in a contemporary Chinese film facing up to Hollywood the end of cinema - multi-media and technological change.

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