Introduction: film theory, cinema, the body and the senses
1. Cinema as window and frame REAR WINDOW -- Constructivism -- Realism -- Open and closed film forms (Leo Braudy) -- Classical cinema -- Central perspective -- Rudolf Arnheim -- Sergej Eisenstein -- Andre Bazin -- David Bordwell -- Cinema as shop- window and display
2. Cinema as door -- screen and threshold THE SEARCHERS -- Entry into the film -- Etymology of screen -- Thresholds of the cinema/movie theater -- Beginnings: credits and credit sequences -- Neoformalism (Bordwell/Thompson) -- Post- structuralism (Thierry Kuntzel) -- Michail Bachtin -- Door/screen as filmic motif in Buster Keaton and Woody Allen
3. Cinema as mirror and face PERSONA-- Bela Balazs -- The close- up -- The face -- Face as mirror of the unconscious -- Christian Metz -- Jean- Louis Baudry -- Apparatus- theory -- Early cinema and the close- up (Tom Gunning) -- Reflexive doubling in modern (art) cinema -- Mirror neurons -- Paradoxes of the mirror
4. Cinema as eye -- look and gaze BLADE RUNNER -- Active and passive eye -- The mobile eye of early cinema -- Dziga Vertov -- Apparatus- theory -- Suture -- Continuity- editing -- Laura Mulvey -- Feminist film theories -- THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS -- Historicity of modes of perception -- Regimes of the gaze -- The big Other (Jacques Lacan) -- Slavoj A iA ek -- The panoptic gaze (Michel Foucault) -- Niklas Luhmann and selfmonitoring
5. Cinema as skin and touch CRASH -- Critique of "ocularcentrism" -- Skin and identity -- THE NEW WORLD-- Vivian Sobchack -- Phenomenology -- The (re-)turn to the body --Avant- garde practices -- Body and genre (Linda Williams, Barbara Creed) --The skin of film (Laura Marks) -- Accented cinema (Hamid Naficy) --Siegfried Kracauer
6. Cinema as ear -- acoustics and space SINGIN' IN THE RAIN -- Sound as spatial phenomenon -- Silent cinema and the introduction of sound -- Sound in classical cinema ---- The acousmetre (Michel Chion) -- Reversals in the hierarchy of image and sound -- Surround- systems -- Materiality and plasticity of sound
7. Cinema as brain -- mind and body ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND-- Propaganda and cult films -- Five concepts for connecting mind and cinema -- Gilles Deleuze -- Annette Michelson -- Torben Grodal -- Mind- game films -- Mind and body, spectator and film -- Cognitivism -- Phenomenology -- Empathy -- Embodiment and disembodied vision Conclusion: digital cinema -- the body and the senses refigured? TOY STORY -- Animation and (photo-)graphics -- The future of projection -- Screens: bigger and smaller -- The new body norm: face or hand? -- Productive contradictions: digital cinema, virtual reality, media convergence -- Interface and portal instead of window, door and screen -- MONSTERS INC. and doors -- Public and private -- Mobility and hybridity -- Film theory and philosophy: radical reformulations or rescue missions?
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