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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; [1] and that now provides conceptual frameworks for understanding film's relationship to reality, the other arts, individual viewers, and society at large. [2]
Film theory seeks to develop concise, systematic concepts that apply to the study of film/cinema as art. Subcategories This category has the following 11 subcategories, out of 11 total.
Film theory seeks to systematize film as a medium. It may use Critical theory, Formalism, Marxism, philosophy of language, or Lacanian psychoanalysis, while film criticism analyzes and examines a specific film (though larger generalizations can still be deduced from criticism).
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. This approach was proposed by Hugo Münsterberg, Rudolf Arnheim, Sergei Eisenstein, and Béla Balázs. [1]
David Jay Bordwell (/ ˈ b ɔːr d w əl /; July 23, 1947 – February 29, 2024) was an American film theorist and film historian. [1] After receiving his PhD from the University of Iowa in 1973, he wrote more than fifteen volumes on the subject of cinema including Narration in the Fiction Film (1985), Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema (1988), Making Meaning (1989), and On the History of Film ...
In film theory, the term oneiric (/ oʊ ˈ n aɪ r ɪ k / oh-NY-rik, adjective; "pertaining to dreams") refers to the depiction of dream-like states or to the use of the metaphor of a dream or the dream-state in the analysis of a film. [1] [2] [3]: 3–4 The term comes from the Greek Óneiros, the personification of dreams.
Linguistic film theory was proposed by Stanley Cavell [1] and it is based on the philosophical tradition begun by late Ludwig Wittgenstein.The theory itself is said to mirror aspects of the activity of Wittgenstein's own philosophising (e.g. Wittgenstein's thought experiments) as films are viewed capable of engaging the audience in a therapeutic process of 'dialogue' and even investigate the ...
Structuralist film theory emphasizes how films convey meaning through the use of codes and conventions not dissimilar to the way languages are used to construct meaning in communication. However, structuralist film theory differs from linguistic theory in that its codifications include a more apparent temporal aspect.