Film theory
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Film theory debates the essence of the cinema and provides conceptual frameworks for understanding film's relationship to reality, the other arts, individual viewers, and society at large. Film theory is generally distinguished from film criticism, which concentrates on evaluating individual films.
List of film theorists
- Rudolf Arnheim
- Béla Balázs
- André Bazin
- Walter Benjamin
- David Bordwell
- Riciotto Canudo
- Gilles Deleuze
- Louis Delluc
- Sergei Eisenstein
- Alexander Kluge
- Siegfried Kracauer
- Teresa de Lauretis
- Christian Metz
- Laura Mulvey
- Hugo Münsterberg
- Vivian Sobchack
- Slavoj Žižek
- Georg Lukacs
- Vsevolod Pudovkin
Specific theories of film
- Apparatus theory
- Auteur theory
- Feminist film theory
- Formalist film theory
- Marxist film theory
- Philosophy of Language Film Analysis
- Psychoanalytical film theory
- Socialist realism
- Screen theory
- Structuralist film theory
See also
- Auteur theory
- Surrealism and film
- David Bordwell vs Slavoj Žižek
- Oneiric (film theory)
- Feminist film theory
- Psychoanalytical film theory
- Film as a Subversive Art
- Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
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