• Film theory is a set of scholarly approaches within the academic discipline of film or cinema studies that began in the 1920s by questioning the formal...
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    MatPat (redirect from Film Theory (series))
    YouTube series Game Theory, and its spin-off series Film Theory, Food Theory, and Style Theory, each analyzing various video games, films alongside TV series...
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  • Formalist film theory is an approach to film theory that is focused on the formal or technical elements of a film: i.e., the lighting, scoring, sound...
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  • Auteur (redirect from Auteur Theory Film)
    theory. Yet the concept first appeared in French in 1955 when director François Truffaut termed it policy of the authors, and interpreted the films of...
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  • Structuralist film theory is a branch of film theory that is rooted in structuralism, itself based on structural linguistics. Structuralist film theory emphasizes...
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  • Lacan. The theory is closely tied to Critical theory, Marxist film theory, and Apparatus theory. The theory is separated into two waves. The first wave...
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  • Conspiracy Theory is a 1997 American political action thriller film directed by Richard Donner. Starring Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts and Patrick Stewart...
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  • other things has given rise to psychoanalytic film theory, structuralist film theory, feminist film theory, and others. On the other hand, critics from...
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  • Marxist film theory is an approach to film theory centered on concepts that make a political understanding of the medium possible. [failed verification]...
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  • Feminist film theory is a theoretical film criticism derived from feminist politics and feminist theory influenced by second-wave feminism and brought...
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  • In film theory, the term oneiric (/oʊˈnaɪrɪk/ oh-NY-rik, adjective; "pertaining to dreams") refers to the depiction of dream-like states or to the use...
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  • Chaos Theory is a 2008 American comedy drama film starring Ryan Reynolds, Emily Mortimer, and Stuart Townsend. The film was directed by Marcos Siega,...
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    approach, or the emotional response to the film. Drawing heavily from the theories of literary-genre criticism, film genres are usually delineated by "conventions...
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    majority of narrative fiction films available today. Post-Soviet film theories relied extensively on montage's redirection of film analysis toward language...
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  • Apparatus theory, derived in part from Marxist film theory, semiotics, and psychoanalysis, was a dominant theory within cinema studies during the 1970s...
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    liberation. Critical theory finds applications in various fields of study, including psychoanalysis, film theory, literary theory, cultural studies, history...
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    divided into two categories: Academic criticism by film scholars, who study the composition of film theory and publish their findings and essays in books...
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  • Surrealist cinema is a modernist approach to film theory, criticism, and production, with origins in Paris in the 1920s. The Surrealist movement used...
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    Laura Mulvey (category Film theorists)
    influenced by the theories of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan, is one of the first major essays that helped shift the orientation of film theory towards a psychoanalytic...
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    Bordwell edited the anthology Post-Theory: Reconstructing Film Studies (1996), a polemic on the state of contemporary film theory. His largest work was The Classical...
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  • The Theory of Everything is a 2014 biographical romantic drama film directed by James Marsh. Set at the University of Cambridge, it details the life of...
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    Media studies (redirect from Media theory)
    economics, sociology, anthropology, social theory, art history and criticism, film theory, and information theory. Former priest and American educator John...
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    aspects of film production, film studies are concentrated on film theory, which approaches film critically as an art, and the writing of film historiography...
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  • Linguistic film theory is a form of film theory that studies the aesthetics of films by investigating the concepts and practices that comprise the experience...
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  • Feminist theory is the extension of feminism into theoretical, fictional, or philosophical discourse. It aims to understand the nature of gender inequality...
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    Male gaze (redirect from Male gaze theory)
    articulated by British feminist film theorist Laura Mulvey in her 1975 essay, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. Mulvey's theory draws on historical precedents...
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  • Assholes: A Theory is a 2019 Canadian documentary film directed by John Walker Based on Aaron James's 2012 non-fiction book of the same name, the film explores...
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  • The Universal Theory (German: Die Theorie von Allem, lit. 'The Theory of Everything') is a 2023 mystery thriller film directed by Timm Kröger, from a...
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  • popular, mass-media outlets and academic critics who are informed by film theory and publish in journals. Taran Adarsh (indiaFM) James Agee (Time, The...
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