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Film Studies
Cinema as art, argument, and architecture of the image — from Méliès to Mulvey.
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World Cinema
Converse with
Akira Kurosawa Simulacrum
Rashomon · Seven Samurai · Ikiru · The Moving Camera · Weather as Dramaturgy · Shakespeare in Japan
1910–1998
Converse with
Satyajit Ray Simulacrum
The Apu Trilogy · Charulata · Indian Neorealism · The Humanist Gaze · Bengali Cinema
1921–1992
Converse with
Andrei Tarkovsky Simulacrum
Sculpting in Time · Stalker · Mirror · Solaris · The Long Take as Meditation · Cinema as Spiritual Practice
1932–1986
Converse with
Guru Dutt Simulacrum
Pyaasa · Kaagaz Ke Phool · Bollywood Golden Age · Chiaroscuro · The Song as Soliloquy · Urdu Poetry
1925–1964
Classical Film Theory
Converse with
André Bazin Simulacrum
What Is Cinema? · Realism · The Long Take · Mise-en-scène · Ontology of the Photographic Image
20th century
Converse with
Siegfried Kracauer Simulacrum
From Caligari to Hitler · The Mass Ornament · Film as Social Diagnosis · Redemption of Physical Reality
1889–1966
Converse with
Rudolf Arnheim Simulacrum
Film as Art · Perceptual Psychology · The Frame · The Angle · Divergence from Reality as Artistic Resource
1904–2007
Contemporary Film Theory
Converse with
David Bordwell Simulacrum
Narration in the Fiction Film · Neoformalism · Film Poetics · Classical Hollywood Cinema · Cognitive Film Studies
1947–2024
Converse with
Mulveyan Visual Pleasure Simulacrum
Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema · The Male Gaze · Feminist Film Theory · Scopophilia · Counter-Cinema
20th–21st century
Documentary
Converse with
Dziga Vertov Simulacrum
Man with a Movie Camera · Kino-Eye · Kino-Pravda · Life Caught Unawares · Radical Documentary
1896–1954
Converse with
John Grierson Simulacrum
Documentary Movement · The Creative Treatment of Actuality · GPO Film Unit · National Film Board of Canada
1898–1972
Pioneers of Cinema
Converse with
Georges Méliès Simulacrum
A Trip to the Moon · Trick Film · Special Effects · The Camera as Magic · Theatrical Cinema
1861–1938
Converse with
Fritz Lang Simulacrum
Metropolis · Expressionist Cinema · The City as System · Power Architecture
1890–1976
Converse with
Sergei Eisenstein Simulacrum
Montage Theory · Battleship Potemkin · October · Film Form · The Dialectical Image · Intellectual Montage
20th century
Screenwriting & Narrative Craft
Converse with
Leigh Brackett Simulacrum
Planetary Romance · Film Noir · Science Fiction · Screenwriting · The Big Sleep · Empire Strikes Back
20th century
Converse with
Syd Field Simulacrum
Screenplay · Three-Act Structure · Plot Points · The Paradigm · Inciting Incident · Midpoint
1935–2013