Critical frameworks, movements, manifestos, and analytical concepts used to interpret cinema and film culture.

This discipline currently includes 18 entries. Browse the entries below to move through the CINEXIS library by topic rather than alphabetically.

Entries In Film Theory & Criticism

18 entries
Aesthetics in Filmmaking
Aesthetics in filmmaking refers to the formal and sensory choices that shape how a film looks, sounds, and feels.
Affect Theory in Film
Affect theory in film studies examines how cinema produces felt, embodied responses that may arrive before a viewer fully names them as emotions or ideas.
Algorithmic Cinema
Algorithmic cinema refers to screen works shaped by computational rules, automated systems, data-driven processes, or software logic.
Anthropological Film
In film studies, Anthropological Film refers to Anthropological films serve as a visual medium for exploring and documenting diverse cultures and societies
Apparatus Theory
In film studies, Apparatus Theory refers to 1970s saw the emergence of apparatus theory, a major paradigm for film studies that built on semiotics, psychoa
Brechtian Film Theory
In film studies, Brechtian Film Theory refers to trailblazer in 20th-century theatre, Bertolt Brecht created a film studies, Brechtian Alienation Effect th
Cinema Verite
Cinema verite is a documentary approach associated with lightweight cameras, synchronized sound, location shooting, and an effort to capture lived reality
Data Visualization
In film studies, Data Visualization refers to art and science of conveying information through visual aids is known as data visualization.
Dogme 95
Dogme 95 was a Danish film movement launched in 1995 by Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg.
German Expressionism
In film studies, German Expressionism refers to early 20th century artistic movement known as German Expressionism had a significant influence on the film
Grande Syntagmatique
Grande syntagmatique is Christian Metz's structuralist model for classifying the major kinds of shot groupings and sequence patterns that appear in narrati
Green Film Criticism
In film studies, Green Film Criticism refers to critical perspective that looks at the relationship between environmentalism and movies is called "green fi
Kinoks Manifesto
In film studies, Kinoks Manifesto refers to radical approach to filmmaking was established by the manifestos written by the Kinoks, a group of avant-garde
Oberhausen Manifesto
In film studies, Oberhausen Manifesto refers to At the Oberhausen Short Film Festival in 1962, a group of youthful German filmmakers unveiled the audacious
Oneiric Film Theory
Oneiric film theory examines the dreamlike qualities of cinema, especially the ways films imitate the fractured logic, unstable subjectivity, and symbolic
Phenomenology of Film
Phenomenology of film is an approach to film theory that focuses on lived experience, perception, embodiment, and the viewer's sensory relation to the scre
Postmodern Film
Postmodern film is a mode of cinema associated with irony, self-awareness, quotation, fragmentation, and the mixing of styles that older criticism often tr
Visual Anthropology
In film studies, Visual Anthropology refers to captivating subfield that employs the power of film to document, interpret, and understand diverse cultures