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Film theory, the Glossary

Film theory is a set of scholarly approaches within the academic discipline of film or cinema studies that began in the 1920s by questioning the formal essential attributes of motion pictures; and that now provides conceptual frameworks for understanding film's relationship to reality, the other arts, individual viewers, and society at large.^[1]

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Theories of aesthetics

Academy

An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership).

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Alexandre Astruc

Alexandre Astruc (13July 192319May 2016) was a French film critic and film director.

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Aljean Harmetz

Aljean Meltsir Harmetz (born December 30, 1929) is an American journalist and film historian.

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Allen & Unwin

George Allen & Unwin was a British publishing company formed in 1911 when Sir Stanley Unwin purchased a controlling interest in George Allen & Co.

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André Bazin

André Bazin (18 April 1918 – 11 November 1958) was a renowned and influential French film critic and film theorist.

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Andrew Sarris

Andrew Sarris (October 31, 1928 – June 20, 2012) was an American film critic.

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Anthropology

Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including archaic humans.

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Apparatus theory

Apparatus theory, derived in part from Marxist film theory, semiotics, and psychoanalysis, was a dominant theory within cinema studies during the 1970s, following the 1960s when psychoanalytical theories for film were popular.

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Art

Art is a diverse range of human activity and its resulting product that involves creative or imaginative talent generally expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas. Film theory and Art are concepts in aesthetics and the arts.

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Auteur

An auteur ('author') is an artist with a distinctive approach, usually a film director whose filmmaking control is so unbounded and personal that the director is likened to the "author" of the film, thus manifesting the director's unique style or thematic focus. Film theory and auteur are concepts in aesthetics.

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Avant-garde

In the arts and in literature, the term avant-garde (from French meaning advance guard and vanguard) identifies an experimental genre, or work of art, and the artist who created it; which usually is aesthetically innovative, whilst initially being ideologically unacceptable to the artistic establishment of the time. Film theory and avant-garde are concepts in aesthetics and Postmodernism.

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Béla Balázs

Béla Balázs (4 August 1884 – 17 May 1949), born Herbert Béla Bauer, was a Hungarian film critic, aesthetician, writer and poet of Jewish heritage.

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Bill Nichols (film critic)

Bill Nichols (born 1942) is an American film critic and theoretician best known for his pioneering work as founder of the contemporary study of documentary film.

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Bracha L. Ettinger

Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger (born March 23, 1948) is an Israeli-French artist, writer, psychoanalyst and philosopher, born in Mandatory Palestine and living and working in Paris.

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Cahiers du Cinéma

() is a French film magazine co-founded in 1951 by André Bazin, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, and Joseph-Marie Lo Duca.

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Chantal Akerman

Chantal Anne Akerman (6 June 19505 October 2015) was a Belgian film director, screenwriter, artist, and film professor at the City College of New York.

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Charles Sanders Peirce

Charles Sanders Peirce (September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914) was an American scientist, mathematician, logician, and philosopher who is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism".

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Christian Metz (theorist)

Christian Metz (December 12, 1931 – September 7, 1993) was a French film theorist, best known for pioneering film semiotics, the application of theories of signification to the cinema.

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Cinema 1: The Movement Image

Cinema 1: The Movement Image (Cinéma 1.) (1983) is the first of two books on cinema by the philosopher Gilles Deleuze, the second being Cinema 2: The Time Image (Cinéma 2.) (1985).

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Cinema 2: The Time-Image

Cinema 2: The Time-Image (French: Cinéma 2, L'image-temps) (1985) is the second volume of Gilles Deleuze's work on cinema, the first being ''Cinema 1: The Movement-Image'' (Cinéma 1.) (1983).

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Cinematography

Cinematography is the art of motion picture (and more recently, electronic video camera) photography. Film theory and Cinematography are film and video technology, film production and filmmaking.

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Close-up

A close-up or closeup in filmmaking, television production, still photography, and the comic strip medium is a type of shot that tightly frames a person or object.

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Cognitivism (aesthetics)

Aesthetic cognitivism is a methodology in the philosophy of art, particularly audience responses to art, that relies on research in cognitive psychology. Film theory and cognitivism (aesthetics) are concepts in aesthetics.

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David Bordwell

David Jay Bordwell (July 23, 1947 – February 29, 2024) was an American film theorist and film historian.

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David Kipen

David Kipen (born August 14, 1963) is an author, critic, broadcaster, arts administrator, full-time UCLA writing faculty member and nonprofit bilingual lending librarian.

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Deep focus

Deep focus is a photographic and cinematographic technique using a large depth of field. Film theory and Deep focus are cinematography.

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Defamiliarization

Defamiliarization or ostranenie (p) is the artistic technique of presenting to audiences common things in an unfamiliar or strange way so they could gain new perspectives and see the world differently.

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Dialectical materialism

Dialectical materialism is a materialist theory based upon the writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that has found widespread applications in a variety of philosophical disciplines ranging from philosophy of history to philosophy of science.

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Digital cinema

Digital cinema refers to the adoption of digital technology within the film industry to distribute or project motion pictures as opposed to the historical use of reels of motion picture film, such as 35 mm film. Film theory and digital cinema are cinematography, film and video technology and filmmaking.

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Discipline

Discipline is the self-control that is gained by requiring that rules or orders be obeyed, and the ability to keep working at something that is difficult.

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Dudley Andrew

James Dudley Andrew (born July 28, 1945) is an American film theorist.

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Dziga Vertov

Dziga Vertov (Дзига Вертов, born David Abelevich Kaufman, Дави́д А́белевич Ка́уфман., and also known as Denis Kaufman; – 12 February 1954) was a Soviet pioneer documentary film and newsreel director, as well as a cinema theorist.

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Encyclopædia Britannica

The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.

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Essentialism

Essentialism is the view that objects have a set of attributes that are necessary to their identity.

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Feminist film theory

Feminist film theory is a theoretical film criticism derived from feminist politics and feminist theory influenced by second-wave feminism and brought about around the 1970s in the United States.

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Ferdinand de Saussure

Ferdinand de Saussure (26 November 185722 February 1913) was a Swiss linguist, semiotician and philosopher.

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Film

A film (British English) also called a movie (American English), motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images.

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Film criticism

Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films and the film medium.

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Film studies

Film studies is an academic discipline that deals with various theoretical, historical, and critical approaches to cinema as an art form and a medium.

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Flashback (narrative)

A flashback (sometimes called an analepsis) is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point in the story.

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Formalism (art)

In art history, formalism is the study of art by analyzing and comparing form and style.

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Formalist film theory

Formalist film theory is an approach to film theory that is focused on the formal or technical elements of a film: i.e., the lighting, scoring, sound and set design, use of color, shot composition, and editing.

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François Truffaut

François Roland Truffaut (6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was a French filmmaker, actor, and critic.

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Francesco Casetti

Francesco Casetti (born April 2, 1947) is an Italian naturalized US citizen film and television theorist.

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French impressionist cinema

French impressionist cinema (first avant-garde or narrative avant-garde) refers to a group of French films and filmmakers of the 1920s.

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Gaze

In critical theory, philosophy, sociology, and psychoanalysis, the gaze (French: le regard), in the figurative sense, is an individual's (or a group's) awareness and perception of other individuals, other groups, or oneself. Film theory and gaze are concepts in aesthetics.

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Gender studies

Gender studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to analysing gender identity and gendered representation. Film theory and gender studies are critical theory.

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Genre studies

Genre studies is an academic subject which studies genre theory as a branch of general critical theory in several different fields, including art, literature, linguistics, rhetoric and composition studies.

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Georges Sadoul

Georges Sadoul (4 February 1904 – 13 October 1967) was a French film critic, journalist and cinema writer.

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Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography

The Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, officially the S. A. Gerasimov All-Russian University of Cinematography (Vserossiyskiy gosudarstvyennyy institut kinematografii imyeni S. A. Gerasimova, meaning All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography named after S. A. Gerasimov), a.k.a. VGIK, is a film school in Moscow, Russia.

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Germaine Dulac

Germaine Dulac (born Charlotte Elisabeth Germaine Saisset-Schneider; 17 November 1882 – 20 July 1942)Flitterman-Lewis 1996 was a French filmmaker, film theorist, journalist and critic.

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Gilles Deleuze

Gilles Louis René Deleuze (18 January 1925 – 4 November 1995) was a French philosopher who, from the early 1950s until his death in 1995, wrote on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art.

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Glossary of motion picture terms

This glossary of motion picture terms is a list of definitions of terms and concepts related to motion pictures, filmmaking, cinematography, and the film industry in general. Film theory and glossary of motion picture terms are cinematography, film and video technology, film production and filmmaking.

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Griselda Pollock

Griselda Frances Sinclair PollockThe International Who's Who of Women; 3rd ed.; ed.

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Henri Bergson

Henri-Louis Bergson (18 October 1859 – 4 January 1941) was a French philosopherHenri Bergson.

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History of film

The history of film chronicles the development of a visual art form created using film technologies that began in the late 19th century. Film theory and history of film are cinematography, film and video technology and film production.

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Hugo Münsterberg

Hugo Münsterberg (June 1, 1863 – December 16, 1916) was a German-American psychologist.

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Ideogram

An ideogram or ideograph (from Greek 'idea' + 'to write') is a symbol that represents an idea or concept independent of any particular language.

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Invisible auditor

The invisible auditor model is a variation of the invisible witness model.

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Italian neorealism

Italian neorealism (Neorealismo), also known as the Golden Age of Italian Cinema, was a national film movement characterized by stories set amongst the poor and the working class.

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Jacques Lacan

Jacques Marie Émile Lacan (13 April 1901 – 9 September 1981) was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist.

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Jean Epstein

Jean Epstein (25 March 1897 – 2 April 1953) was a French filmmaker, film theorist, literary critic, and novelist.

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Kino-Eye

Kino-Eye (Anglophonic: Cine-Eye) is a film technique developed in Soviet Union by Dziga Vertov. Film theory and Kino-Eye are cinematography.

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Kino-Pravda

Kino-Pravda (translation) was a series of 23 newsreels by Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman launched in June 1922.

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Kuleshov effect

The Kuleshov effect is a film editing (montage) effect demonstrated by Russian film-maker Lev Kuleshov in the 1910s and 1920s.

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Laura Mulvey

Laura Mulvey (born 15 August 1941) is a British feminist film theorist and filmmaker.

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Lev Kuleshov

Lev Vladimirovich Kuleshov (Лев Владимирович Кулешов; – 29 March 1970) was a Russian and Soviet filmmaker and film theorist, one of the founders of the world's first film school, the Moscow Film School.

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Linguistic film theory

Linguistic film theoryThe Dualist, Department of Philosophy, Stanford University, 1994, p. 56.

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Linguistics

Linguistics is the scientific study of language.

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List of film periodicals

Film periodicals combine discussion of individual films, genres and directors with in-depth considerations of the medium and the conditions of its production and reception.

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Literary theory

Literary theory is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for literary analysis.

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Long take

In filmmaking, a long take (also called a continuous take, continuous shot, or oner) is shot with a duration much longer than the conventional editing pace either of the film itself or of films in general. Film theory and long take are cinematography and film and video technology.

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Louis Althusser

Louis Pierre Althusser (16 October 1918 – 22 October 1990) was a French Marxist philosopher who studied at the École normale supérieure in Paris, where he eventually became Professor of Philosophy.

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Louis Delluc

Louis Delluc (14 October 1890 – 22 March 1924) was an Impressionist French film director, screenwriter and film critic.

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Maggie Humm

Maggie Humm (born 1945) is an English feminist academic, Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of East London.

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Marxism

Marxism is a political philosophy and method of socioeconomic analysis.

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Marxist film theory

Marxist film theory is an approach to film theory centered on concepts that make a political understanding of the medium possible.

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Mary Ann Doane

Mary Ann Doane (born 1952) is the Class of 1937 Professor of Film and Media at the University of California, Berkeley and was previously the George Hazard Crooker Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University.

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Matter and Memory

Matter and Memory (French: Matière et mémoire, 1896) is a book by the French philosopher Henri Bergson.

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Memory

Memory is the faculty of the mind by which data or information is encoded, stored, and retrieved when needed.

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Miriam Hansen

Miriam Hansen (28 April 1949 – 5 February 2011) was a film historian who made important contributions to the study of early cinema and mass culture.

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Narrative film

Narrative film, fictional film or fiction film is a motion picture that tells a fictional or fictionalized story, event or narrative. Film theory and narrative film are cinematography and filmmaking.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Pedro Almodóvar

Pedro Almodóvar Caballero (born 25 September 1949) is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and author.

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Philosophy of film

The philosophy of film is a branch of aesthetics within the discipline of philosophy that seeks to understand the most basic questions about film.

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Poetic realism

Poetic realism was a film movement in France of the 1930s.

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Psychoanalysis

PsychoanalysisFrom Greek: +. is a set of theories and therapeutic techniques"What is psychoanalysis? Of course, one is supposed to answer that it is many things — a theory, a research method, a therapy, a body of knowledge.

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Psychoanalytic film theory

Psychoanalytic film theory is a school of academic thought that evokes the concepts of psychoanalysts Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan.

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Psychology of film

The psychology of film is a sub-field of the psychology of art that studies the characteristics of film and its production in relation to perception, cognition, narrative understanding, and emotion.

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Queer theory

Queer theory is a field of post-structuralist critical theory that emerged in the early 1990s out of queer studies (formerly often known as gay and lesbian studies) and women's studies. Film theory and queer theory are critical theory.

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Realism (arts)

Realism in the arts is generally the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding speculative and supernatural elements.

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Reality

Reality is the sum or aggregate of all that is real or existent within the universe, as opposed to that which is only imaginary, nonexistent or nonactual.

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Ricciotto Canudo

Ricciotto Canudo (2 January 1877, Gioia del Colle – 10 November 1923, Paris) was an early Italian film theoretician who lived primarily in France.

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Roland Barthes

Roland Gérard Barthes (12 November 1915 – 26 March 1980) was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician.

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Rudolf Arnheim

Rudolf Arnheim (July 15, 1904 – June 9, 2007) was a German-born writer, art and film theorist, and perceptual psychologist.

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Russian Revolution

The Russian Revolution was a period of political and social change in Russia, starting in 1917.

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Schreiber theory

The Schreiber theory is a writer-centered approach to film criticism and film theory which holds that the principal author of a film is generally the screenwriter rather than the director.

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Screen theory

Screen theory is a Marxist–psychoanalytic film theory associated with the British journal ''Screen'' in the early 1970s.

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Semiotics

Semiotics is the systematic study of sign processes and the communication of meaning.

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Sergei Eisenstein

Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (11 February 1948) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter, film editor and film theorist.

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Siegfried Kracauer

Siegfried Kracauer (February 8, 1889 – November 26, 1966) was a German writer, journalist, sociologist, cultural critic, and film theorist.

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Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies seen as originating from conflicts in the psyche, through dialogue between patient and psychoanalyst, and the distinctive theory of mind and human agency derived from it.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_theory

Also known as Cinema Studies, Film theorist, Language of film, Theory of film, Theory of film and cinema.

, Germaine Dulac, Gilles Deleuze, Glossary of motion picture terms, Griselda Pollock, Henri Bergson, History of film, Hugo Münsterberg, Ideogram, Invisible auditor, Italian neorealism, Jacques Lacan, Jean Epstein, Kino-Eye, Kino-Pravda, Kuleshov effect, Laura Mulvey, Lev Kuleshov, Linguistic film theory, Linguistics, List of film periodicals, Literary theory, Long take, Louis Althusser, Louis Delluc, Maggie Humm, Marxism, Marxist film theory, Mary Ann Doane, Matter and Memory, Memory, Miriam Hansen, Narrative film, Oxford University Press, Pedro Almodóvar, Philosophy of film, Poetic realism, Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic film theory, Psychology of film, Queer theory, Realism (arts), Reality, Ricciotto Canudo, Roland Barthes, Rudolf Arnheim, Russian Revolution, Schreiber theory, Screen theory, Semiotics, Sergei Eisenstein, Siegfried Kracauer, Sigmund Freud, Silent film, Slavoj Žižek, Society, Stanley Cavell, Structuralist film theory, Superimposition, Surrealism, The Matrixial Gaze, Vachel Lindsay, World War II, 3D film.

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