Film quarterly forty years-a selection - Henderson, Brian 1941- (Berkeley, California University of California Press, 1999)
Introduction -- Part one. Early days: Beige, brown, or black -- Recent film writing: a survey -- Part two. Theory: Tense, mood, and voice in film (notes after Ganette) -- The critics as consumer: film study in the university, vertigo, and the film canon -- Yellow earth: Western analysis and a non-western text -- Popular culture and oral traditions in African film -- The subversive potential of the pseudo-iterative -- Part three. Genre: Nightmare and the horror film: the symbolic biology of fantastic beings -- Human artifice and the science fiction film -- Confessions of a feminist porn watcher -- The sacraments of genre: Coppola, DePalma, Scorsese -- Hardcore: cultural resistance in the postmodern -- Part four: Documentary: The voice of documentary -- Newsreel: old and new-towards an historical profile -- When less is less: the long take in documentary -- Mirrors without memories: truth, history, and the new documentary -- Part four. Documentary: -- Part five. Technologies: Colorization -- Machines of the invisible: changes in film technology in the age of video -- Videophilia: what happens when you wait for it in video -- Through the looking glasses: from the camera obscura to video assist -- True lies: perceptual realism, digital images, and film theory -- Part six. Historical revisions: Stepin Fetchit talk back -- Footnote to the history of Riefenstahl's Olympia -- Power and dis-integration in the films of Orson Welles -- Reading Kane -- Desert fury, mon amour -- Fritz Lang and Goebbels: myth and facts -- Part seven. Group texts: Special feature: independent cinema -- FQ round table: the many faces of Thelma & Louise.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Motion pictures