The Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory
by
Edward Branigan (Editor) &
Warren Buckland (Editor)
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Hardcover Book Details
- Hardcover
- 526 Pages
- Released: November 23, 2013
- Originally Released: 2013
- Publisher: Routledge
Authors:
Edited by | Edward Branigan & Warren Buckland |
Product Description:
When first encountering film theory, students are often confronted with a dense, interlocking set of texts full of arcane terminology, inexact formulations, sliding definitions, and abstract generalities. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory challenges these first impressions by aiming to make film theory accessible and open to new readers.
Edward Branigan and Warren Buckland have commissioned over 50 scholars from around the globe to address the difficult formulations and propositions in each theory by reducing these difficult formulations to straightforward propositions.
The result is a highly accessible volume that clearly defines, and analyzes step by step, many of the fundamental concepts in film theory, ranging from familiar concepts such as ‘Apparatus', ‘Gaze', ‘Genre', and ‘Identification', to less well-known and understood, but equally important concepts, such as Alain Badiou's ‘Inaesthetics', Gilles Deleuze's ‘Time-Image', and Jean-Luc Nancy's ‘Evidence'.