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.

Author: Toby Miller
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 05/21/2004
Pages: 436
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.72lbs
Size: 9.64h x 6.74w x 1.27d
ISBN: 9780631206453

Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2004 pg. 1672

About the Author
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 McHoul) 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).