audiobook Commemoration in America: Essays on Monuments; Memorialization; and Memory by From University of Virginia Press in Arts-Photography

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With Post-Theory; David Bordwell and Noeuml;l Carroll challenge the prevailing practices of film scholarship. Since the 1970s; film scholars have been searching for a unified theory that will explain all sorts of films; their production; and their reception; the field has been dominated by structuralist Marxism; varieties of cultural theory; and the psychoanalytic ideas of Freud and Lacan. Bordwell and Carroll ask; why not employ many theories tailored to specific goals; rather than searching for a unified theory? Post-Theory offers fresh directions for understanding film; presenting new essays by twenty-seven scholars on topics as diverse as film scores; audience response; and the national film industries of Russia; Scandinavia; the U.S.; and Japan. They use historical; philosophical; psychological; and feminist methods to tackle such basic issues as: What goes on when viewers perceive a film? How do filmmakers exploit conventions? How do movies create illusions? How does a film arouse emotion? Bordwell and Carroll have given space not only to distinguished film scholars but to non-film specialists as well; ensuring a wide variety of opinions and ideas on virtually every topic on the current agenda of film studies. Full of stimulating essays published here for the first time; Post-Theory promises to redefine the study of cinema.