Writer and film-maker Laura Mulvey is widely regarded as one of the most challenging and incisive contemporary cultural theorists, credited for incorporating film theory, psychoanalysis and feminism. Part of the pathbeating 1970s generation of British film theorists and independent film-makers, she came to prominence with her classic essay on the pleasures – and displeasures – ...(展开全部)

Writer and filmmaker Laura Mulvey is widely regarded as one of the most challenging and incisive contemporary feminist cultural theorists. Part of the 1970s generation of British film theorists and independent filmmakers, she came to prominence with her classic work on the pleasures, and displeasures, of narrative cinema, Visual and Other Pleasures. This new collection contains...(展开全部)

莱斯利·米勒：创意艺术大学教授，主要研究面料文化。 爱丽丝·凯特：曼切斯特城市大学曼切斯特艺术学院教授，主要研究面料艺术。

迈克尔·陶西格（Michael Taussig），1940年出生于澳大利亚，在伦敦经济学院获得人类学博士学位，后在哥伦比亚大学担任人类学教授，以其富有挑战性的民族志研究和非传统的学术风格而闻名。他对马克思和瓦尔特·本雅明的评论，尤其是关于商品拜物教思想的评论最为人称道，此外他在医学人类学领域也作出了重要贡献。代表作有《南美洲的恶魔和商品拜物教》《萨满教、殖民主义与野人》等。

In this classic book, Michael Taussig explores the social significance of the devil in the folklore of contemporary plantation workers and miners in South America. Grounding his analysis in Marxist theory, Taussig finds that the fetishization of evil, in the image of the devil, mediates the conflict between precapitalist and capitalist modes of objectifying the human condition....(展开全部)

Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno—affiliated through friendship, professional ties, and argument—developed an astute philosophical critique of modernity in which technological media played a key role. This book explores in depth their reflections on cinema and photography from the Weimar period up to the 1960s. Miriam Bratu Hansen brings to life an impr...(展开全部)

马克·费罗：法国年鉴学派史学家，第一次世界大战史、俄国史专家，将电影作为文献和媒介进行历史研究的先锋。著作甚丰，除本书外，其他主要著作有：《法国史》（2001）、《历史的禁忌》（2002）、《伊斯兰教的冲击》《电影，对历史的一种解读》（2003）等。

Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City

..". a fresh, compelling, essential work of film theory. Recommended for all libraries." --Choice "[Jean Mitry] is the Aristotle of film." --R.D. MacCann "This text marks a watershed in film theory. Mitry sums up the first fifty years of theoretical writings on the cinema..." --Richard Abel "The rediscovery of Mitry could change the parameters of film teaching, breaking down th...(展开全部)

..". less about film than about the psychology of the viewing experience." -- American FilmEmploying Freudian psychoanalysis, Christian Metz explores the nature of cinematic spectatorship and looks at the operations of meaning in the film text.