Film Theory: An Introduction (Images of Culture)

This popular title had been reprinted nine times since its first publication and is an accessible account of film theory, aimed at both the cinema-goer and the student. 'Film needs theory' said Alan Parker, 'like it needs a scratch on the negative'. This book shows that statement to be invalid, in a series of chapters simply titled Politics, Semiotics, Psychoanalysis, Authorship, Narrative Realism and The Avant-garde.