HISTORY

 

ANCIENT THOUGHT (c.700 BCE-300 CE):
  
Classical Literature

 

MEDIEVAL THOUGHT (c.300-c.1400):
  
Medieval Literature

 

RENAISSANCE THOUGHT (c.1400-c.1600):

   Renaissance Literature

 

EARLY MODERN THOUGHT (c.1600-c.1785):
  
Neoclassical Literature

 

NINETEENTH CENTURY THOUGHT:
  
Romanticism (1785-1830):
     
Romantic Literature
   Mid-Century/Fin de Siècle (1830-1900)
:
     
'Victorian' Literature

 

TWENTIETH CENTURY THOUGHT:
  
Analytic Philosophy

   Continental Theory:
     
Idealism

      Marxism

      Phenom., Existent., Hermeneutics

      Psychoanalysis

      (Post-)Structuralisms:

         Deconstruction

         Deleuzean Theory

         Dialogism (Bakhtin Circle)

         Foucauldian Discourse Theory

         Semiology / Structuralism

         Structuralist Marxism

         Structuralist Psychoanalysis

   Modernism, Myth & New Criticism

   Pragmatism

 

   Feminist Theory

   Post-colonial Theory

 

   Twentieth Century Literature

 

REGIONS

 

AFRICAN AND AFRICAN DIASPORIC THOUGHT:

   Literature

 

ASIAN THOUGHT:

   Central Asia

   East Asian Thought:

      Literature

   South Asian Thought:

      Literature

   South-East Asia

 

AUSTRALASIAN THOUGHT:

   Literature

 

CANADIAN THOUGHT:

   Literature

 

CARIBBEAN THOUGHT:

   Literature

 

EUROPEAN THOUGHT:

   Central Europe

   Eastern Europe:

      Russia:

        Literature

   Northern Europe:

      Literature

   Southern Europe:

      Greece:

         Literature

      Italy:

         Literature

      Spain:

         Literature

   Western Europe:

      France:

         Literature

      Germany:

         Literature

      UK and Eire:

         Literature

 

LATIN AMERICAN THOUGHT:

   Literature

 

MIDDLE EASTERN THOUGHT:

   Arabic/Islamic Thought:

      Literature

   Israeli/Jewish Thought:

      Literature

 

USA: AMERICAN THOUGHT:

   Literature

   African American Thought:

      Literature

   Native American Thought

 

TOPICS

 

ARTS:

   Architecture
   Arts, Visual and Plastic

   Film

   Literature:

      Author

      Literary Form & Genre:

         Drama

         Poetry

         Prose

      Literary History, Intertextuality, Canon.

      Metaliterature

      Reader

      Representation

   Music
   Other Media (e.g. Photography)

 

BEING

 

COMMUNICATION:

   Discourse Studies
   Philosophy of Language & Logic

   Linguistics

   Rhetoric & Argumentation Theory

   Semiotics

 

   Language and Literature

 

EDUCATION

 

HISTORY

 

THE HUMAN BEING (BODY, MIND, SELF):

   Medical Humanities
  
Philosophy of Mind & Cognitive Science

   Psychology

 

   Gender

   Race

   Sexuality

 

   Literature, the Mind & the Self

 

KNOWLEDGE

 

FILM
PHILOSOPHY OF FILM
FILM THEORY


SUB-PAGES

Feminist:

Post-colonial:


ASSOCIATIONS

CONFERENCES

2009:

2008:

2007:

  • Don't Look Now?  British Cinema in the 1970s Conference, Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture, University of Exeter, July 4-6

2006:

  • Films Without Frontiers, European Cinema Research Forum (ECRF), University of Wales, Swansea,
  • The Documentary Tradition, Film and History Conference, Dolce Conference Center, Dallas, November 8-12
  • Annual Conference, Literature / Film Association, Department of Electronic Media and Film, Towson University, November 3-5
  • First Annual Framework Conference, Screen Studies Program and Department of English, Oklahoma State University, November 3-4
  • Queering Migrations on Screen, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, October 13
  • Film, Television and the 1950s, Plymouth State University, October 6-7
  • Inaugural Conference, Association of Literature on Screen Studies, De Montfort University, September 11-12
  • The Philosophy of Film: Towards an Understanding of Film as Art, Department of Philosophy, University of Liverpool, June 8-9

2005:

2004:

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2000:

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COURSES

JOURNALS

PHILOSOPHERS / THEORISTS

Philosophers of Film:

Film Theorists:

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:

    • Philosophy of Film:

      • Choi, Jinhee, and Noel Caroll, eds.  Philosophy of Film and Moving Pictures.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.

      • Read, Rupert, and Jerry Goodenough, eds.  Film as Philosophy: Essays on Cinema after Wittgenstein and Cavell.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

      • Smith, Murray, and Thomas E. Wartenberg, eds.  Thinking Through Cinema: Film as PhilosophyJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 64.1 (2006).

      • Wartenberg, Thomas E., and Angela Curran, eds.  The Philosophy of Film: Introductory Text and Readings.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.

    • Film Theory:

      • Braudy, Leo, and Marshall Cohen, eds.  Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings.  5th Ed.  Oxford: OUP, 1999.

      • Mast, Gerald, ed. 

      • Penley, Constance, ed.  The Analysis of Film.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2000.  21-27.

      • Rosen, Phil, ed.  Narrative, Apparatus, Ideology: a Film Theory Reader

      • Stam, Robert, and Toby Miller, eds.  Film Theory: an Anthology.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.

  • Selected Individual Works:

    • Philosophy of Film:

      • Frampton, Daniel.  Filmosophy.  London: Wallflower, 2006.

      • McGinn, Colin.  The Power of Movies: How Screen and Mind Interact

    • Film Theory:

      • Arnheim, Rudolph.  Film as Art.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1957.

      • Baudry, Jean-Louis.  "Ideological Effects of the Basic Cinematographic Apparatus."

      • Baudry, Jean-Louis.  "The Apparatus: Metapsychological Approaches to the Impression of Reality in Cinema."  Narrative, Apparatus, Ideology.  286- 318.

      • Bazin, André.  What is Cinema?

      • Comolli, Jean-Louis, and Jean Narboni.  "Cinema / Ideology / Criticism."  Cahiers du Cinema (1969): .

      • Dayan, Daniel.  “The Tutor-Code of Classical Cinema.” 
      • Deleuze, Gilles.  Cinéma II: l'Image-temps.  Paris: Minuit, 1985. 
        • Cinema II: the Time-Image.  Trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1989.
      • Deleuze, Gilles.  Cinéma I: l'Image-Mouvement.  Paris: Minuit, 1983. 
        • Cinema I: The Movement-Image.  Trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1986.
      • Kracauer, Sigfried.  Theory of Film

      • Lynch, William F.  The Image Industries.  New York: Sheed & Ward, 1959.

      • Mullarkey, John.  Refractions of Reality: Philosophy and the Moving Image.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

      • Peretz, Eyal.  Becoming Visionary: Brian De Palma's Cinematic Education of the SensesStanford: Stanford UP, 2007.

      • Silverman, Kaja.  The Subject of Semiotics.  Oxford: OUP, 1983.

      • Stam, Robert.  Subversive Pleasures: Bakhtin, Cultural Criticism and Film.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1989.

      • Wollen, Peter.  Signs and Meaning in the Cinema.  London: Secker and Warburg, 1969.

On-Line:

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SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:

    • Philosophy of Film:

    • Film Theory:

      • Blakesley, David, ed.  Terministic Screens

      • Stam, Robert, and Toby Miller, eds.  A Companion to Film Theory.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1999.

  • Selected Individual Works:

    • Philosophy of Film:

    • Film Theory:

      • Andrew, J. Dudley.  The Major Film Theories: an Introduction.  Oxford: OUP, 1976.

      • Andrew, J. Dudley.  Concepts in Film Theory.  Oxford: OUP, 1994.

      • Lothe, Jakob.  Narrative in Fiction and Film.  Oxford: OUP, 2000.
      • Stam, Robert.  Film Theory: an Introduction.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.

      • Stam, Robert, Robert Burgoyne, and Sandy Flitterman-Lewis.  New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics: Structuralism, Post-structuralism and Beyond.  London: Routledge, 1992.

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USA:

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