The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory Advance Access originally published online on April 30, 2009
The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory 2009 17(1):87-124; doi:10.1093/ywcct/mbp001
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Film Theory
University of New South Wales
This chapter reviews books published in 2007 and 2008 in the field of film theory and cinema studies. It is divided into 11 sections: 1. The Cavellian Moment; 2. Ontology and the Real; 3. The Uneasiness of Cinema Studies in a Post-Medium Condition; 4. Cinematic Thinking; 5. Sister Arts? Pictures, Poses and the Real; 6. Art and the Moving Image; 7. Tableaux Morts and Vivants; 8. Confessions of an Aesthete; 9. Cinema and Modernism; 10. Living Bodies, Carnal Pleasures; 11. Childhood and Cinema.