Thinking in the Dark – Cinema, Theory, Practice Pomerance Palmer Blatter Gunning

Thinking in the DarkCinema, Theory, Practice\nAuthor(s): Murray Pomerance, R. Barton Palmer, R. Barton Palmer, Murray Pomerance, Jeremy Blatter, Tom Gunning, Steven Woodward, Johannes von Moltke, Colin Williamson, Sarah Keller\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Rutgers University Press, United States\nImprint: Rutgers University Press\nISBN-13: 9780813566283, 978-0813566283\nSynopsis\nTodays film scholars draw from a dizzying range of theoretical perspectives-theyre just as likely to cite philosopher Gilles Deleuze as they are to quote classic film theorist Andr Bazin. To students first encountering them, these theoretical lenses for viewing film can seem exhilarating, but also overwhelming.\nThinking in the Dark introduces readers to twenty-one key theorists whose work has made a great impact on film scholarship today, including Rudolf Arnheim, Sergei Eisenstein, Michel Foucault, Siegfried Kracauer, and Judith Butler. Rather than just discussing each theorists ideas in the abstract, the.