Slavoj Zizek is one of the world's most important contemporary public intellectuals. Much of his popularity stems from his constant and recurring references to popular culture and cinema, as well as his own appearances in films such as The Pervert's Guide to Cinema and Examined Life. Although Zizek refers to cinema in order to help explain difficult concepts in his theoretical ...(展开全部)

安格斯·弗莱彻（Angus John Stewart Fletcher，1930—2016），美国文学理论家、批评家，纽约城市大学莱曼学院特聘教授，研究领域包括英语文学和比较文学。《讽喻》（1964）是其第一部专著，出版后成为20 世纪乃至21世纪文学批评的经典。此外，他还有《心灵的色彩》（Colors of the Mind，1991）、《美国诗歌新论》（A New Theory for American Poetry，2004）、《莎士比亚时代的时间、空间和运动》（Time, Space, and Motion in the Age of Shakespeare，2007）等著作。 李茜，生于重庆，先后毕业于北京大学中文系、慕尼黑大学戏剧系，曾在北京大学比较文学与比较文化研究所从事博士后研究，现任教于南京大学艺术学院。研究领域包括当代剧场与表演、...(展开全部)

安格斯·弗莱彻（Angus John Stewart Fletcher，1930—2016），美国文学理论家、批评家，纽约城市大学莱曼学院特聘教授，研究领域包括英语文学和比较文学。《讽喻》（1964）是其第一部专著，出版后成为20 世纪乃至21世纪文学批评的经典。此外，他还有《心灵的色彩》（Colors of the Mind，1991）、《美国诗歌新论》（A New Theory for American Poetry，2004）、《莎士比亚时代的时间、空间和运动》（Time, Space, and Motion in the Age of Shakespeare，2007）等著作。 李茜，生于重庆，先后毕业于北京大学中文系、慕尼黑大学戏剧系，曾在北京大学比较文学与比较文化研究所从事博士后研究，现任教于南京大学艺术学院。研究领域包括当代剧场与表演、...(展开全部)

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory is an international reference work representing the essential ideas and concepts at the centre of film theory from the beginning of the twentieth century, to the beginning of the twenty-first. When first encountering film theory, students are often confronted with a dense, interlocking set of texts full of arcane terminology, inexact fo...(展开全部)

The problem of representation - that the representation of a concept can never be that concept - is a version of the enduring philosophical problem of the difference between appearance and its underlying reality. Examining how the limitations of representation have been discussed from Kant up through Marxist theorists of postmodernism, The Abyss of Representation illuminates th...(展开全部)

At the close of the eighteenth century, the aesthetics of the sublime were shaped by two conflicting views: the empiricism of Edmund Burke and the formalist idealism of Immanuel Kant. Today, theoretical work struggles once again with this philosophical issue. In modern debates over the nature of literary language and of human agency, the sublime has been a bone of contention ...(展开全部)

In The Sublime Perversion of Capital Gavin Walker examines the Japanese debate about capitalism between the 1920s and 1950s, using it as a "prehistory" to consider current discussions of uneven development and contemporary topics in Marxist theory and historiography. Walker locates the debate's culmination in the work of Uno Kozo, whose investigations into the development of ca...(展开全部)

In The Sublime Perversion of Capital Gavin Walker examines the Japanese debate about capitalism between the 1920s and 1950s, using it as a "prehistory" to consider current discussions of uneven development and contemporary topics in Marxist theory and historiography. Walker locates the debate's culmination in the work of Uno Kozo, whose investigations into the development of ca...(展开全部)

Gavin Walker is Assistant Professor of History and East Asian Studies at McGill University.

Siegfried Kracauer's classic study, originally published in 1960, explores the distinctive qualities of the cinematic medium. The book takes its place alongside works in classical film theory by such figures as Bla Balzs, Rudolf Arnheim, and Andr Bazin, among others, and has met with much critical dispute. In this new edition, Miriam Bratu Hansen, examining the book in the cont...(展开全部)