Cinema Histories, Cinema Practices.

Collection of essays, edited by Patricia Mellencamp and Philip Rosen. Part I, 'Cinema Histories,' focuses on questions of film history: temporal change and stasis in film styles, forms and subject matter; problems of economic and social determinations which shaped film practices during specific historical periods. Part II, 'Cinema Practices,' covers questions associated with the theoretical or practical axis of mainstream/classical versus alternative/avant-garde cinemas. The essays are: Edward Buscombe: Bread and Circuses: Economics and the Cinema; Philip Rosen: Securing the Historical: Historiography and the Classical Cinema; Michael Silverman: Italian Film and American Capital, 1947-1951; Thomas Elsaesser: Film History and Visual Pleasure: Weimar Cinema; Edward Branigan: What is a camera?; Manuel De Landa: Wittgenstein at the Movies; Peter Lehman: The Avant-Garde: Power, Change, and the Power to Change; Maureen Turim: The Retraction of State Funding of Film and Video Arts and Its Effects on Future Practice; Andrew Tyndall: Cinema and the Superego.

Part of the Bill Douglas and Peter Jewell Collection