GENERAL SOURCES FOR FILM THEORY

Dudley Andrew’s two early monographs, The Major Film Theories (Oxford, 1976) and Concepts in Film Theory (Oxford, 1984), are still a useful starting point. Andrew has also offered insightful commentary on more recent developments. See his “The ‘Three Ages’ of Cinema Studies and the Age to Come” (PMLA 115.4, May 2000, 341–351) and “The Core and the Flow of Film Studies” (Critical Inquiry 35.4, Summer 2009, 879–915).

Among the general anthologies available, see Film Theory and Criticism (Oxford, updated regularly), Movies and Methods, (Ed. Bill Nichols, University of California, Volume I in 1976 and Volume II in 1985) and Philip Rosen’s Narrative, Apparatus, Ideology: A Film Theory Reader (Columbia, 1986).

Additional introductory texts for reference:

• Branigan, Edward, and Warren Buckland, eds. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory. Routledge, 2014.
• Buckland, Warren. Film Theory: Rational Reconstructions. Rout-ledge, 2012.
• Corrigan, Timothy and Patricia White with Meta Mazaj, eds. Critical Visions in Film Theory: Classic and Contemporary Readings. Bedford/St. Martins, 2011.
• Etherington-Wright, Christine, and Ruth Doughty. Understanding Film Theory. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
• Miller, Toby, and Robert Stam, eds. A Companion to Film Theory. Blackwell, 2004.
• Pomerance, Murray, and R. Barton Palmer, eds. Thinking in the Dark: Cinema, Theory, Practice. Rutgers, 2016
• Rushton, Richard, and Gary Bettinson. What Is Film Theory? An Introduction to Contemporary Debates. Open UP, 2010.
• Stam, Robert. Film Theory: An Introduction. Blackwell, 2000.