Post-theory : reconstructing film studies / edited by David Bordwell and Noel Carroll

Contemporary film studies and the vicissitudes of grand theory / David Bordwell -- Prospects for film theory : a personal assessment / Noël Carroll -- Psychoanalytic film theory and the problem of the missing spectator / Stephen Prince -- Convention, construction, and cinematic vision / David Bordwell -- Is a cognitive approach to the avant- garde cinema perverse? / James Peterson -- The logic and legacy of Brechtianism / Murray Smith -- Characterization and fictional truth in the cinema / Paisley Livingston -- Empathy and (film) fiction / Alex Neill -- Feminist frameworks for horror films / Cynthia A. Freeland -- Apt feeling, or why "women's films" aren't trivial / Flo Leibowitz -- Unheard melodies? A critique of psychoanalytic theories of film music / Jeff Smith -- Film music and narrative agency / Jerrold Levinson -- Nonfiction film and postmodernist skepticism / Noël Carroll -- Moving pictures and the rhetoric of nonfiction film : two approaches / Carl Plantinga -- Film, reality, and illusion / Gregory Currie -- The case for an ecological metatheory / Joseph Anderson and Barbara Anderson -- Movies in the mind's eye / Julian Hochberg and Virginia Brooks -- Notes on audience response / Richard J. Gerrig and Deborah A. Prentice -- Toward a new media economics / Douglas Gomery -- Columbia Pictures : the making of a motion picture major, 1930-1943 / Tino Balio - - "A brief romantic interlude" : Dick and Jane go to 3 1/2 seconds of the classical Hollywood cinema / Richard Malthy -- The jazz singer's reception in the media and at the box office / Donald Crafton -- Jameson and "global aesthetics" / Michael Walsh -- Reconstructing Japanese film / Donald Kirihara -- Danish cinema and the politics of recognition / Mette Hjort -- Whose aparratus? Problems of film exhibitin and history / Vance Kepley, Jr.