Summary
Since publication of the first edition in 1974, Leo Braudy and Marshall Cohen’s Film Theory and Criticism has been the most widely used and cited anthology of critical writings about film. Now in its eighth edition, this landmark text continues to offer outstanding coverage of more than a century of thought and writing about the movies. Incorporating classic texts by pioneers in film theory and cutting-edge essays by contemporary scholars, the text examines both historical and theoretical vie…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199376896 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0199376891 |
| Author: | Braudy, Cohen |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 960 |
| Edition: | 8th |
| Release Date: | 14 February 2016 |
| Weight: | 1.28kg |
| Dimensions: | 33mm x 155mm x 234mm |
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A near-exhaustive collection of essential film writing. The essays contained in Film Theory and Criticism testify not only to the diversity of topics that make up the study of film, but to their increasing relevance in our globalized, digitized age. At nearly 900 pages, there’s not a clunker in it.–John Bruns, College of CharlestonIt is the best compilation of the widest range of critical approaches that relies on complete reproductions (not truncated extracts) of some of the most influential and provocative theory on film.–Terri A. Hasseler, Bryant University
About The Author
Braudy
Leo Braudy
Leo Braudy is University Professor and Leo S. Bing Chair in English and American Literature and Professor of English, Art History, and History at the University of Southern California. He is the author of:
- Native Informant: Essays on Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture
- The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History
- From Chivalry to Terrorism: War and the Changing Nature of Masculinity
Marshall Cohen
Marshall Cohen is University Professor Emeritus and Dean Emeritus of the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences at the University of Southern California. He is the coeditor, with Roger Copeland, of:
- What Is Dance? Readings in Theory and Criticism
He is also the founding editor of:
- Philosophy and Public Affairs
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