Explorations in film theory - selected essays from 'Ciné-Tracts'

Selected essays, edited by Ron Burnett and originally published in the French film journal Ciné-Tracts between 1976 and 1983. Contents: I. The Turn of the Subject: Psychoanalysis/Feminism/Identification I. Spectacle and Spectator: Looking Through the American Musical Comedy by Patricia Mellencamp; II. Misrecognition and Identity by Mary Ann Doane; III. The Turn of the Subject by Stephen Heath; IV. Film Body: An Implantation of Perversions by Linda Williams; V. Images and Pornography by Claire Pajaczkowska; VI. Primary Identification and the Historical Subject: Fassbinder and Germany by Thomas Elsaesser. II. The Documentary Cinema: Realism and Representation VII. Self-Reflexivity in Documentary by Jeanne Allen; VIII. The Crisis of the Documentary Film in Quebec by Ron Burnett; IX. Realism, Naturalism and Their Alternatives by Raymond Williams; X. Film as Word: Questions of Language and Documentary Realism by Peter Ohlin; XI. 'Man with a Movie Camera' and Woman's Work by Judith Mayne. III. Signs of Meaning: The Image in Question XII. Paradoxes of Realism: The Rise of Film in the Train of the Novel by Margaret Morse; XIII. Culture, History and Ambivalence: On the subject of Walter Benjamin by John Fekete; XIV. Questions of Property: Film and Nationhood by Stephen Heath; XV. The Fundamental Reproach: Bertolt Brecht and the Cinema by Ben Brewsyer; XVI. Semiotics, Theory and Social Practice: A Critical History of Italian Semiotics by Teresa de Lauretis. IV. Film Form/Film History XVII. Media Repression: A Personal Statement by Peter Watkins; XVIII. Camera Movement and Cinematic Space by David Bordwell; XIX. The Myth of Total Cinema History by Will Straw; XX. Notes on Communication and Representation in the Development of Educational Television by Phil Vitone; XXI. The Consolidation of the American Film Industry, 1915-1920 by George Mitchell; XXII. Song of the Shirt: The Film and History Project by Alison Beale.