Film Theory

Bettinson, Gary (2019) Film Theory. Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, 27 (1). 160–180. ISSN 1077-4254

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Abstract

In this chapter I review six contributions to the field of film theory published in 2018: Carl Plantinga’s Screen Stories: Emotion and the Ethics of Engagement (Oxford University Press); Miklós Kiss and Steven Willemsen’s Impossible Puzzle Films: A Cognitive Approach to Contemporary Complex Cinema (Edinburgh University Press); Nicholas Godfrey’s The Limits of Auteurism: Case Studies in the Critically Constructed New Hollywood (Rutgers University Press); Peter Krämer and Yannis Tzioumakis’s The Hollywood Renaissance: Revisiting American Cinema’s Most Celebrated Era (Bloomsbury Academic); Dorothy Wai Sim Lau’s Chinese Stardom in Participatory Cyberculture (Edinburgh University Press); and Gina Marchetti’s Citing China: Politics, Postmodernism, and World Cinema (University of Hawaii Press). The chapter has three sections: 1. Cognition, Emotion, and Ethics; 2. The New Hollywood; 3. Contemporary Chinese Cinema.

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Journal Article
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Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory
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This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Gary Bettinson, Film Theory, The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, 27 (1), https://doi.org/10.1093/ywcct/mbz009 is available online at: https://academic.oup.com/ywcct/article/27/1/160/5523002
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?? cultural studiesliterature and literary theorylinguistics and languagevisual arts and performing artshistoryphilosophyarts and humanities(all)language and linguistics ??
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22 Jul 2019 10:55
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