This book examines some of the most significant recent developments in film and critical theory. The book is divided into four sections, each dealing with established and alternative critical concepts and approaches. These four are: The Gaze and Subjectivity; Film and Discourse; Film and Culture; Film and Meaning. Each of these topics is explored using concepts from post-structuralism and postmodernism, working towards the idea that the relationship between film studies and critical theory is a vital and diverse interplay of rich and exciting ideas.

Patrick Fuery is Professor at Chapman University, USA. His research interests include psychoanalysis, semiotics, literary and cultural theory, gender studies, film and visual studies, medicine and the arts. Fuery is the author of 8 books, including Madness and Cinema (2004), New Developments in Film Theory (2000), and The Theory of Absence (1995).

Introduction
The Gaze: Masochism, Identification and Phantasy in the Spectator
Dangerous Supplements: The Envy of the Gaze
The Shattering Pluralism: Film and its Discourses
Flesh into Body into Subject: The Corporeality of the Filmic Discourse
The Ideology of Love: Film and Culture
The Carnivalesque: Film and Social Order
Film and Meaning
Seduction: Gender, Genre and Power.