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D.N. Rodowick offers a critical analysis of the development of film theory since 1968. He shows how debates concerning the literary principles of modernism--semiotics, structuralism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, and feminism--have transformed our understanding of cinematic meaning. Rodowick explores the literary paradigms established in France during the late 1960s and traces their influence on the work of diverse filmmaker/theorists including Jean-Luc Godard, Peter Gidal, Laura Mulvey, and Peter Wollen. By exploring the "new French feminisms" of Irigaray and Kristeva, he investigates the relation of political modernism to psychoanalysis and theories of sexual difference. In a new introduction written especially for this edition, Rodowick considers the continuing legacy of this theoretical tradition in relation to the emergence of cultural studies approaches to film.

Film criticism. --- 1970s film theory. --- 20th century film. --- 20th century filmmakers. --- 20th century politics. --- cinema history. --- european films. --- european history. --- feminism. --- film and feminism. --- film and politics. --- film and television. --- film critics. --- film history. --- film symbolism. --- film theory. --- french films. --- gender and film. --- gender studies. --- history of filmmaking. --- history of france. --- jean-luc godard. --- laura mulvey. --- marxism. --- movie theory. --- peter gidal. --- peter wollen. --- postwar entertainment. --- psychoanalysis. --- semiotics. --- structuralism. --- womens studies.