Screen theory is a Marxist film theory associated with the British journal Screen in the 1970s. Marxist film theory is one of the oldest forms of Film theory. Screen is a journal of film and Television studies based at the John Logie Baird Centre at the University of Glasgow and published by Oxford The theoreticians of this approach -- Colin MacCabe, Stephen Heath and Laura Mulvey -- describe the "cinematic apparatus" as a version of Althusser's Ideological State Apparatus (ISA). Colin MacCabe is a British writer and film producer He is distinguished professor of English and film at the University of Pittsburgh and professor of English and humanities Laura Mulvey (born August 15, 1941) was educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford. Apparatus theory, derived in part from Marxist film theory, Semiotics, and Psychoanalysis, was a dominant theory within cinema studies during Louis Pierre Althusser (Pronunciation altuˡseʁ ( October 16, 1918 – October 22, 1990) was a Marxist philosopher. An ideology is a set of beliefs aims and Ideas especially in politics According to screen theory, it is the spectacle that creates the spectator and not the other way round. The fact that the subject is created and subjected at the same time by the narrative on screen is masked by the apparent realism of the communicated content.
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- Heath, Stephen (1981): Questions of Cinema. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
- MacCabe, Colin (1985): Theoretical Essays: Film, Linguistics, Literature. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
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