AFI Film Readers
About the Book Series
AFI Film Readers, published in cooperation with the American Film Institute, focus on important issues and themes in film and media scholarship.
Theorizing Documentary
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Renov
May 10, 1993
A key collection of essays that looks at the specific issues related to the documentary form. Questions addressed include `What is documentary?' and `How fictional is nonfiction?'...
Film Theory Goes to the Movies: Cultural Analysis of Contemporary Film
1st Edition
Edited
By Jim Collins, Ava Preacher Collins, Hilary Radner
December 21, 1992
Film Theory Goes to the Movies fills the gap in film theory literature which has failed to analyze high-grossing blockbusters. The contributors in this volume, however, discuss such popular films as The Silence of the Lambs, Dances With Wolves, Terminator II, Pretty Woman, Truth or Dare, Mystery ...
Sound Theory/Sound Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Rick Altman
June 05, 1992
Dramatically broadening the previous field of research on sound, Sound Theory/Sound Practice promises to renew the debate over the importance of sound to cinema, from a theoretical as well as a historical perspective....
Psychoanalysis and Cinema
1st Edition
Edited
By E. Ann Kaplan
December 28, 1989
These fifteen carefully chosen essays by well-known scholars demonstrate the vitality and variety of psychoanalytic film criticism, as well as the crucial role feminist theory has played in its development. Among the films discussed are Duel in the Sun, The Best Years of Our Lives, Three Faces of ...