The Soul of Film Theory 0230365132, 9780230365131

In contemporary film theory, body and mind have been central to explorations of film form, representation, and spectator

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The Soul of Film Theory
0230365132, 9780230365131

Featuring chapters on Pontypool, Ginger Snaps, 1970s slasher films, Quebec horror, and the work of David Cronenberg, amo

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Featuring chapters on Pontypool, Ginger Snaps, 1970s slasher films, Quebec horror, and the work of David Cronenberg, amo

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The seduction-theory defines film in a broader sense as a medium of seduction, based on the French concept of séduction.

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Animating Film Theory provides an enriched understanding of the relationship between two of the most unwieldy and unstab

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The seduction-theory defines film in a broader sense as a medium of seduction, based on the French concept of séduction.

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Film Theory Goes to the Movies fills the gap in film theory literature which has failed to analyze high-grossing blockbu

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This book draws new connections between twentieth-century German and French film theory and practice and vitalist concep

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Rich in implications for our present era of media change, The Promise of Cinema offers a compelling new vision of film t

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This book challenges common sense understandings of the unconscious effects of cinema and visual culture. It explores th

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Here is an astute study on the neo-Platonic concept of the vehicle of the soul, which writers such as Iamblichus and Pro

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