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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]
Matthew Robert Patrick (born November 15, 1986), better known as MatPat, is an American former YouTuber and internet personality. He is the creator and former host of the YouTube series Game Theory, and its spin-off channels Film Theory, Food Theory, and Style Theory, each analyzing various video games, films alongside TV series and web series, food, and fashion respectively.
Noël Carroll (born 1947) is an American philosopher considered to be one of the leading figures in contemporary philosophy of art.Although Carroll is best known for his work in the philosophy of film (he is a proponent of cognitive film theory), he has also published journalism, works on philosophy of art generally, theory of media, and also philosophy of history.
Film and video terminology (8 C, 280 P) ... Pages in category "Film theory" ... Neo-Baroque film; New queer cinema; New sincerity;
Todd McGowan (born 1967) is an American film scholar, philosopher, and professor of English at the University of Vermont where he teaches film and cultural theory. He works on Hegel, psychoanalysis, and existentialism, and the intersection of these lines of thought with the cinema. [1]
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).
The Major Film Theories. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. André Bazin. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. ISBN 0-19-502165-7; Kenji Mizoguchi: A Guide to References and Resources with Paul Andrew. G.K. Hall & Co., 1981. Concepts in Film Theory. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. Film in the Aura of Art.
Cinema Speculation is Tarantino's debut work of nonfiction and combines "film criticism, film theory, a feat of reporting, and wonderful personal history". [1] The book is a collection of essays organized around "key American films from the 1970s" which Tarantino saw in his youth, [2] ranging from blaxploitation films to all the Best Picture nominees of 1970. [3]