Comprehensive and unique in covering all major realist film theorists including Grierson, Kracauer, Bazin and Lukacs, and in linking these 20th-century traditions to themes and characteristics of 19th-century realism in literature and painting The first book to attempt a rigorou…
Since publication of the first edition in 1974, Leo Braudy and Marshall Cohen's Film Theory and Criticism has been the most widely used and cited anthology of critical writings about film. Now in its seventh edition, this landmark text continues to offer outstanding coverage of …
In formulating a notion of filmic reality, The Reality of Film offers a novel way of understanding our relationship to cinema. It argues that cinema need not be understood in terms of its capacities to refer to, reproduce or represent reality, but should be understood in terms o…
