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  2. Robert Stam - Wikipedia

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    Robert Stam (born October 29, 1941) is an American film theorist working on film semiotics. He is a professor at New York University , where he teaches about the French New Wave filmmakers. [ 1 ] Stam has published widely on French literature , comparative literature , and on film topics such as film history and film theory .

  3. Film semiotics - Wikipedia

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    Robert Stam, Robert Burgoyne, and Sandy Flitterman-Lewis, New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics: Structuralism, Post-structuralism, and Beyond (1992): This work highlighted film semiotics as a new tool in art criticism. The book provided an overview of previous thinkers and defined terms critical to semiotic film theory.

  4. Film theory - Wikipedia

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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]

  5. Category:Film theorists - Wikipedia

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    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).

  6. Cinema Novo - Wikipedia

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    According to Randal Johnson and Robert Stam, Cinema Novo officially began in 1960, with the start of its first phase. [ 12 ] In 1961, the Popular Center of Culture, a subsidiary of the National Students' Union, released Cinco Vezes Favela , a film serialized in five episodes that Johnson and Stam claim to be "one of the first" products of the ...

  7. Film genre - Wikipedia

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    Film theorist Robert Stam challenged whether genres really exist, or whether they are merely made up by critics. Stam has questioned whether "genres [are] really 'out there' in the world or are they really the construction of analysts?". As well, he has asked whether there is a "... finite taxonomy of genres or are they in principle infinite?"

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    annals of crime don’t shoot A radical approach to the problem of gang violence. BY John seaBrooK In April, 2006, two brutal street killings in the Over-the-Rhine section of Cincin-

  9. Film studies - Wikipedia

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    It was the creation of the auteur theory, which examines film as the director's vision and art, that broadened the scope of academic film studies to a worldwide presence in the 1960s. In 1965, film critic Robin Wood , in his writings on Alfred Hitchcock , declared that Hitchcock's films contained the same complexities of Shakespeare 's plays. [ 3 ]