Concept
Film theory
Overview
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 essential attributes of motion pictures; and that now provides conceptual frameworks for understanding film's relationship to reality, the other arts, individual viewers, and society at large. Film theory is not to be confused with general film criticism, or film history, though these three disciplines interrelate. Although some branches of film theory are derived from linguistics and literary theory, it also originated and overlaps with the philosophy of film.
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Philosophers who discussed Film theory
Related ideas
- Ferdinand de Saussure
- Gilles Deleuze
- Henri Bergson
- Academy
- Jacques Lacan
- Slavoj Žižek
- Roland Barthes
- Marxism
- Realism (arts)
- Film
- Linguistics
- Psychoanalysis
- Russian Revolution
- Sigmund Freud
- Surrealism
- Semiotics
- Memory
- Allen & Unwin
- World War II
- Society
- Reality
- Dialectical materialism
- Essentialism
- Literary theory
Place in the tradition
Part of Philosophy of film.