Film Theory

Robert Stam is Professor in the Cinema Studies Department at New York University. His many books include Film Theory: An Introduction (Blackwell Publishers, 1999), Tropical Multiculturalism: A Comparative History of Race in Brazilian Cinema and Culture (1997), Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media with Ella Shohat (1994), which won the Katherine Singer Kovocs 'Best Film Book Award'; and Subversive Pleasures: Bakhtin, Cultural Criticism, and Film (1992).

• Preface. Introduction.1. The Antecedents of Film Theory.2. Russian Formalism.3. The Question of Film Language.4. The Presence of Brecht.5. The Poststructuralist Mutation.6. The Rise of Cultural Studies.7. The Coming Out of Queer Theory.8. Third World Cinema Revisited.9. The Politics of Postmodernism.10. Post Cinema: Digital Theory and the New Media.Index.

"A remarkable synthesis, recommended to anyone who wants to understand the questions and debates that have animated film theory in the twentieth century. Throughout, Stam's discussion is lucid, generous, and intelligent." James Naremore, Indiana University