Marc Furstenau is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Carleton University, Canada. Recent publications include (ed. with Bruce Bennett and Adrian Mackenzie) Cinema and Technology: Cultures, Theories, Practices (2008), and he has also published on the topics of cinema and semiotics, film theory, the philosophical cinema of Terrence Malick and the photographic theory of Susan Sontag. His current research interests include film theory and film history; new digital media and documentary cinema.

Selected Contents: Acknowledgements. Introduction 1. Film Theory: A History of Debates Marc Furstenau. I. The Future of Film Theory: A Debate 2. An Elegy for Theory D.N. Rodowick 3. Theory, Philosophy, and Film Studies Malcolm Turvey. II. Arguments with Early Film Theory 4. The Psychology of the Photoplay Hugo Münsterberg 5. Film/Mind Analogies: The Case of Hugo Münsterberg Noël Carroll 6. Visible Man, or the Culture of Film Béla Bálazs 7. Bálazs: Realist or Modernist? Malcolm Turvey 8. The Ontology of the Photographic Image André Bazin 9. The Evolution of the Language of Cinema André Bazin 10. Rethinking Bazin: Ontology and Realist Aesthetics Daniel Morgan. III. Classic Debates 11. The Cinema: Language or Language System? Christian Metz 12. The Semiology of the Cinema Peter Wollen 13. Recapitulation of Images and Signs Gilles Deleuze 14. Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema Laura Mulvey 15. Is the Gaze Male? E. Ann Kaplan 16. Afterthoughts on 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema' Laura Mulvey 17. The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators bell hooks. IV. Recent Arguments 18. Digital Cinema and the History of a Moving Image Lev Manovich 19. Moving Away from the Index: Cinema and the Impression of Reality Tom Gunning 20. The End of Cinema: Multimedia and Technological Change Anne Friedberg 21. Digital Cinema: A False Revolution John Belton