Robert Stam

This book is a lively and provoking introduction to film theory. It is suitable for students from any discipline but is particularly aimed at students studying film and literature as it examines issues common to both subjects such as realism, illusionism, narration, point of view, style, semiotics, psychoanalysis and multiculturalism. It also includes coverage of theorists common to both, Barthes,...

Written by a leading figure in film and literary studies, this accessible textbook offers a first-rate analysis of the process and the art of literature-to-film adaptations. Literature Through Film provides a lively, rigorous, and clearly written account of key moments in the history of the novel, from Don Quixote and Robinson Crusoe up to Lolita and One Hundred Years of...

Against the long historical backdrop of 1492, Columbus, and the Conquest, Robert Stam's wide-ranging study in Indigeneity and the Decolonizing Gaze traces a trajectory from the representation of indigenous peoples by others to self-representation by indigenous peoples. This often serves as a form of resistance and rebellion against colonialist or neoliberal capitalism, across an eclectic range of forms of media,...