Toby Miller & Robert Stam 
A Companion to Film Theory 

This volume of specially commissioned work by experts in the field of film studies provides a comprehensive overview of the field. Its international and interdisciplinary approach will have a broad appeal to those interested in this multifaceted subject.

* Provides a major collection of specially commissioned work by experts in the field of film studies.

* Represents material under a variety of headings, including class, race, gender, queer theory, nation, stars, ethnography, authorship, and spectatorship.

* Offers an international approach to the subject, including coverage of topics such as genre, image, sound, editing, culture industries, early cinema, classical Hollywood, and TV relations and technology.

* Includes concise chapter-by-chapter accounts of the background and current approaches to each topic, followed by a prognostication on the future.

* Considers cinema studies in relation to other forms of knowledge, such as critical studies, anthropology, and literature.

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1. Introduction: Toby Miller.

2. Authorship: James Naremore.

3. Genre: Sarah Berry.

4. Enunciation and Narration: André Gaudreault and
François Jost.

5. Film Editing: Lucy Fischer.

6. Film Semiotics: Warren Buckland.

7. Cognitivism: Greg Currie.

8. Psychoanalysis: Richard Allen.

9. Spectatorship and Subjectivity: E. Deidre Pribram.

10. Laura Mulvey Meets Cathrine Tramell Meets the She-Man:
Counter-History, Reclamation, and Incongruity in Lesbian, Gay, and
Queer Film and Media Criticism: Julia Erhart.

11. Is There Class in this Text?: The Repression of Class in
Film and Cultural Studies : David James.

12. Culture Industries: Douglas Kellner.

13. The Political Economy of Film: Janet Wasko.

14. The Work of Theory in the Age of Digital Transformation:
Henry Jenkins.

15. Cultural Exchange: Tom O’Regan.

16. Anthropology for the World: Mass Media: Faye Ginsburg.

17. Psycho’s Bad Timing: The Sensual Obsessions of Film Theory:
Toby Miller.

18. Historical Allegory: Ismail Xavier.

19. Every Picture Tells a Story: José Guadalupe Posada’s
Photocinematic Graphic Art: Charles Ramirez Berg.

20. On ‘Historical Poetics, ‘ Narrative, and Interpretation: Ira
Bhaskar.

Index.

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Toby Miller is Professor in the Cinema Studies Department at
New York University. He is the author or editor of a wide range of
work in cultural studies, including A Companion to Cultural
Studies (Ed. Blackwell Publishing, 2001), Technologies of
Truth (1998) and (with Alec Mc Houl) Popular Culture and
Everyday Life (1998). He is also co-editor of the journal
Social Text and (with Robert Stam) co-editor of Film and
Theory: An Anthology (Blackwell Publishing, 2000).

Robert Stam is Professor in the Cinema Studies
Department at New York University. His many books include Film
Theory: An Introduction (Blackwell Publishing, 1999);
Tropical Multiculturalism: A Comparative History of Race in
Brazilian Cinema and Culture (1997); Unthinking
Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media, with Ella Shohat
(1994), which won the Katherine Singer Kovocs ‘Best Film Book
Award’; and Subversive Pleasures: Bakhtin, Cultural
Criticism, and Film (1992). He is also co-editor (with Toby
Miller) of Film and Theory: An Anthology (Blackwell
Publishing, 2000).