Introduction
An improbable alliance : Peter Wollen's "The auteur theory"
Visual stylometry : Barry Salt's "Statistical style analysis of motion pictures"
Between Shakespeare and Sirk : Thomas Elsaesser's "Tales of sound and fury: observations on the family melodrama"
From iconicity to semiotic articulation : Christian Metz's "cinema: language or language system?" and language and cinema
Film as a specific signifying practice : Stephen Heath's "On screen, in frame: film and ideology"
Against theories of reflection : Laura Mulvey's "Visual pleasure and narrative cinema"
Early cinema spectatorship : Tom Gunning's "The cinema of attraction(s): early film, its spectator, and the avant-garde"
Another Lacan : "the universal: suture revisited"
The death of the camera : Edward Branigan's "What is a camera?"
Conclusion: teaching theory.
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Film theory : rational reconstructions by Warren Buckland. ISBN 9780415590983. Published by Routledge in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
