PUBLICATIONS
Editor, The New Review of Film and Television Studies:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/17400309.asp
Books
Puzzle Films: Complex Storytelling in Contemporary Cinema
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2008).
blackwellpublishing.com
Directed by Steven Spielberg: Poetics of the Contemporary Hollywood Blockbuster
(Continuum, 2006). [242pp.]
Chinese translation forthcoming.
www.filmsofspielberg.com
Film Studies (Teach Yourself Books) second edition
(London: Hodder Headline/Chicago: Contemporary-McGraw-Hill, 2003) [205pp.]
Translated into Korean and Japanese.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0071419616/ref=ed_oe_p/
103-2804474-0387001?v=glance&s=books&st=*
Studying Contemporary American Film: A Guide to Movie Analysis
(co-written with Thomas Elsaesser) (London: Arnold Publishers; New York: Oxford University Press, 2002). [309pp.]
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0340762063/qid=1076292176/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/
103-2804474-0387001?v=glance&s=books
The Cognitive Semiotics of Film
(New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000). [185pp.]
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0521780055/qid=1076292176/sr=1-5/ref=sr_1_5/
103-2804474-0387001?v=glance&s=books
(ed.) The Film Spectator: From Sign to Mind
Film Culture in Transition Series (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1995) [258pp.]
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/9053561315/qid=1076292176/sr=12-4/
103-2804474-0387001?v=glance&s=books
Research Papers/Review Essays
"Film and Media Studies Pedagogy"
Robert Kolker (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Film and Media Studies (Oxford University Press, 2008), 527-56.
"What Does the Statistical Style Analysis of Film Involve?"
Literary and Linguistic Computing 23, 2 (2008): 219-30.
"Formalist Tendencies in Film Studies"
James Donald and Michael Renov (eds.)The Sage Handbook of Film Studies (Los Angeles: Sage, 2008): 312-27.
"1982: Movies and Other Worlds"
Stephen Prince (ed.), Screen Decades: the 1980s (Rutgers UP, 2007): 63-81.
"Box Office Figures and The Lord of the Rings"
Ernest Mathijs (ed.), The Lord of the Rings: Popular Culture in Global Context (Wallflower Press/Columbia University Press, 2006): 88-98 (written with Chris Long).
"A Rational Reconstruction of the 'Cinema of Attractions'"
in Wanda Strauven (ed.), The Cinema of Attractions Reloaded (Amsterdam University Press, 2006): 41-55.
"The Death of the Camera"
New Review of Film and Television Studies, 4, 3 (2006): 311-330.
"'Tales of Sound and Fury': A Rational Reconstruction"
Die Spur Durch den Spiegel: Der Film in der Kultur der Moderne, edited by Michael Wedel, Johann N. Schmidt, and Malte Hagener (Bertz Verlag, 2004): 387-95.
"Orientation in Film Space: A Cognitive Semiotic Approach"
Recherches en communication, no.19 (2003): 87-102.
"'A Sad, Bad Traffic Accident': The Televisual Prehistory of David Lynch's Film Mulholland Dr."
New Review of Film and Television Studies, volume 1, no. 1 (2003): 131-47.
"The Auteur in the Age of the Blockbuster: Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks"
The Movie Blockbuster, ed. J. Stringer (London: Routledge, 2003): 84-98. Conference paper 21.
"A New Cultural History of Film"
Semiotica 145, 1/4 (2003): 281-8.
A review essay discussing Anton Kaes' M.
"Promoting Deep Learning Through the Use of Effective Textbooks"
Cinema Journal 41, 1 (2001): 121-7
Conference paper 15.
"Narration and Focalisation in Wings of Desire"
CineAction, 56 (2001): 26-33.
"The Last Word on Filmic Enunciation?"
Semiotica 135, 1/4 (2001): 211-26
A review essay discussing Francesco Casetti's Inside the Gaze: The Fiction Film and its Spectator.
"A Response to Sellors's 'Mindless' Approach to Possible Worlds"
Screen 41, 2 (Summer 2001): 222-6
"Video Pleasure and Narrative Cinema: Luc Besson's The Fifth Element and Video Game Logic"
Moving Images, ed. J. Fullerton and A. Sšderbergh (London: John Libbey, 2000): 159-164.
Conference paper 12.
"Forensic Semiotics,"
The Semiotic Review of Books, 10, 3 (September 1999): 9-12.
A review essay discussing Analysing for Authorship by Jill Farringdon.
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/srb/srb/foresem.html
"Film Semiotics,"
A Companion to Film Theory, ed. Toby Miller and Robert Stam (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999): 84-104.
"Between Science Fact and Science Fiction: Spielberg's Digital Dinosaurs, Possible Worlds, and the New Aesthetic Realism"
Screen 40, 2 (Summer 1999):177-192.
Conference paper 10.
"A Close Encounter with Raiders of the Lost Ark,"
Contemporary Hollywood Cinema, ed. Steve Neale and Murray Smith (London: Routledge, 1998):166-177.
Conference paper 6.
"Traditions and Innovations in Film Theory,"
Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 16, 2 (1997): 207-219.
A review essay discussing R. Allen's Projecting Illusion and M. Smith's Engaging Characters.
"Delay of the Cinema Age,"
Semiotics of the Media, ed. Winfried Nšth (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997): 219-229.
Conference paper 5.
"The New Film Semiology,"
Semiotics Around the World: Synthesis in Diversity, ed. Irmengard Rauch (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997): 599-602.
Conference paper 4.
"Relevance and Cognition: Towards a Pragmatics of Unreliable Filmic Narration,"
Towards a Pragmatics of the Audio-Visual, Vol. 2: Theory and History, ed. Jürgen Müller (Munster: Nodus Publications, 1995): 55-66.
Conference paper 1.
"Michel Colin and the Psychological Reality of Film Semiology,"
Semiotica, 107, 1/2 (1995): 51-79.
Chapter 3 of my Ph.D. thesis.
"Towards a Tagmemic Analysis of Classical Narrative Film,"
Kodikas/Code, 17, 1-4 (1994): 169-180.
Conference paper 2.
"From System to Structure: The Film Semiology of Raymond Bellour,"
Essays in Poetics, 18, 2 (1993): 42-68.
Chapter 2 of my Ph.D. thesis.
"Fredric on Film Theory,"
New Formations, 16 (1992): 163-170.
A review essay discussing Fredric Jameson's anthology of film essays Signatures of the Visible.
"The Structural Linguistic Foundation of Film Semiology,"
Language and Communication, 11, 3 (1991): 197-216.
Chapter 1 of my Ph.D. thesis.
"Filmic Meaning: The Semantics-Pragmatics Interface,"
Kodikas/Code 14, 3/4 (1991): 261-279.
The Introduction to my Ph.D. thesis.
"Critique of Poor Reason,"
Screen, 30, 4 (1989): 80-103.
A review essay discussing Noël Carroll's book Mystifying Movies.
Dictionary Entries
Entry "Film Theory,"
The International Encyclopedia of Communication. ed. Wolfgang Donsbach, volume 5. Blackwell, 2008, pp. 1839-1843.
Entry "Fritz Lang,"
Encyclopedia of European Cinema, ed. Ginette Vincendeau (London: Cassel, 1995): 254.
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Metro/9384/directors/lang.htm
Entries "Juri Lotman," "New Film Semiotics," and "Screen Theory,"
The Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory, ed. Roberta Pearson and Philip Simpson (London: Routledge, 2000).
Short Book Reviews
Review of Film Hieroglyphs: Ruptures in Classical Cinema, by Tom Conley
Word and Image, 9, 4 (1993): 402-3.
Review of Racism and the Press by T. A. van Dijk
Journal of Pragmatics, 21 (1994): 225-231.
Review of Understanding Utterances: An Introduction to Pragmatics, by Diane Blakemore
Journal of Pragmatics, 22 (1994): 232-237.
Review of Past the Last Post: Theorizing Post-Colonialism and Post-Modernism,
ed. Ian Adam and Helen Tiffin
Textual Practice, 8, 2 (1994): 363-67.
Review of Writing for the Medium: Television in Transition,
ed. Thomas Elsaesser, Jan Simons, and Lucette Bronk
Textual Practice 9, 3 (1995): 536-40.
Review of The Making of an Avant-Garde: Tel Quel by Niilo Kauppi
Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 27, 3 (1996): 326-328.
Review of The Time of Theory: A History of Tel Quel (1960-1983) by Patrick French
Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 29, 3 (1998): 327-328.
Review of Moving Pictures: A New Theory of Film Genres, Feelings, and Cognition, by Torben Grodal
European Journal of Communication 13, 4 (1998): 577-581.
Web Only Publications
"The Practice of Filmic Interpretation,"
Film-Philosophy Electronic Salon, November 1998
FP_Carroll.pdf
"Black Cats, Dark Rooms, and Paper Tigers: A Reply to Petric and Grodal,"
Film-Philosophy Electronic Salon, April 2001
FP_Petric-Grodal.pdf
"Problem Formation in the Analytic Philosophy of Film"
Film-Philosophy Electronic Salon, August 2001
FP_Allen-Smith.pdf
"The Artistry of Spielberg's Long Takes"
The Question Spielberg: A Symposium, Senses of Cinema 27, July-August 2003
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/03/27/spielberg_symposium_films_and_moments.html#buckland
"Cognitive Schemas and Virtual Reality" (with Alison McMahan)
http://www.intelligentagent.com/archive/IA5_1avemcmahanbuckland.pdf
Conference Papers
27. "Stop Making Sense: Inland Empire and the Limits of Film Analysis"
Continuity and Innovation: Contemporary Film Form and Film Criticism
University of Reading, September 5-7, 2008.
26. "Non-Linear Narratives"
Symposium on European Cinema
University of Amsterdam, June 26-27, 2008.
25. "The Secular Magic of Steven Spielberg"
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference
Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2-5 March, 2006.
24. "Cognitive Schemas and Virtual Reality" (with Alison McMahan)
Virtual Reality International, an affiliated Conference of the Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
International Conference, Las Vegas, July 2005.
23. "The Genesis of Spielberg's Reputation: TV Work 1969-73"
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference
CNN Omni Center, Atlanta, 4-7 March, 2004.
22. "Relevant Film Studies: Merging Film Studies and Film Production"
UFVA Conference
University of South Carolina, July 22-26, 2003
21. "The Brand Name Above the Title: Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks"
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference
Minneapolis, March 6-9, 2003
20. "Assessing the Electronic Film Studies Textbook"
Society for Cinema Studies Conference
Denver, May 23-26, 2002.
19. "The DNA of a Masterpiece: Perfecting The Man Who Knew Too Much"
The South West Texas PCA/ACA conference
Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 13-17, 2002.
18. "Orientation in Fictional Spaces"
Problems of Representation in a Cognitive Theory of Film, the Third Biennial
Symposium of the Center for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image
University of Pécs, Hungary, 21-25 May 2001.
17. "The Ethics of Storytelling in the Cinema"
Screen Studies Conference
University of Glasgow, 30 June-2 July 2000.
16. "Textual Analysis with a Vengeance: The Statistical Style Analysis of Motion
Pictures Using Computer Technology"
Style and Meaning: Textual Analysis, Interpretation, Mise-en-scène
University of Reading, March 17-19, 2000.
15. "Teaching Film Studies Through Textbooks"
The Society for Cinema Studies Conference
Chicago, March 9-12, 2000.
14. "The Resistance to Film Theory: On Not Interpreting Lost Highway"
Wild at Heart and Weird on Top: The Films of David Lynch
University of Sheffield, 13 February, 1999.
13. "No Strings Attached: Filmic Realism in the Digital Image"
Technologies of Moving Images
University of Stockholm, 6-9 December, 1998.
12. "Video Pleasure and Narrative Cinema: Luc Besson's The Fifth Element and Video Game Logic"
Consumption: Fantasy, Success, Desire
Liverpool John Moores University, 21-22 November, 1998.
11. (with Thomas Elsaesser) "The Ontology of the Digital Image: Hollywood Cinema in the Post-Photographic Age"
Hollywood and its Spectators: the Reception of American Films, 1895-1995
University College London, 12-14 February, 1998.
10. "Between Science Fact and Science Fiction: Spielberg's Digital Dinosaurs, Possible Worlds, and the New Aesthetic Realism"
Screen Studies Conference
University of Glasgow, June 1997.
9. "'Close Encounters of the Prehistoric Kind': Narrative and Narration in Jurassic Park"
Tender Bodies, Twisted Minds Workshop
University of Amsterdam, May 31-June 1, 1996.
8. "Reinventing Film Theory: Innovations in the Semiology of the Cinema"
The Society for Cinema Studies Conference
Dallas, Texas, March 7-10, 1996.
7. "The Conduct of Semiotic Inquiry into the Cinema"
Postdoctoral Fellowship Symposium
The British Academy, London, 8 December, 1995.
6. "Why Steven Spielberg's Films are so Popular"
Hollywood Since the Fifties: A Post-classical Cinema?
University of Kent at Canterbury, July 5-7, 1995.
5. "The Delay of the Cinema Age"
Semiotics of the Media
University of Kassel, Germany, March 20-23, 1995.
4. "The New Film Semiology"
Fifth Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies
University of California, Berkeley, June 12-18, 1994.
3. "'Not What is Seen Through the Window but the Window Itself': Speaking of Filmic Enunciation"
Symposium "Hommage à Christian Metz"
University of Amsterdam, March 25, 1994.
2. "Towards a Tagmemic Analysis of Classical Narrative Film"
7th International Congress of the German Association for Semiotics
University of Tübingen, October 4-7, 1993.
1. "Towards a Pragmatics of Unreliable Filmic Narration"
Towards a Pragmatics of the Audio-Visual
University of Amsterdam, March 20-21, 1992.
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