Today’s movie students draw from a dizzying variety of theoretical perspectives—they’re simply as prone to cite thinker Gilles Deleuze as they're to cite vintage movie theorist André Bazin. To scholars first encountering them, those theoretical lenses for viewing movie can appear exhilarating, but additionally overwhelming.
 
Thinking at the hours of darkness introduces readers to twenty-one key theorists whose paintings has made a superb influence on movie scholarship at the present time, together with Rudolf Arnheim, Sergei Eisenstein, Michel Foucault, Siegfried Kracauer, and Judith Butler. instead of simply discussing each one theorist’s principles within the summary, the e-book exhibits how these ideas can be utilized while reading particular movies by means of together with an research of either a vintage movie and a modern one. It therefore demonstrates how idea may also help us larger savour movies from all eras and genres: from Hugo to Vertigo, from City lighting to Sunset Blvd., and from Young Mr. Lincoln to A.I. and Wall-E.
 
The volume’s participants are all specialists on their selected theorist’s paintings and, in addition, are expert at explaining that thinker’s key principles and phrases to readers who're now not but conversant in them. Thinking in the dead of night is not just a worthy source for lecturers and scholars of movie, it’s additionally a enjoyable learn, person who teaches us all find out how to view prevalent movies via new eyes. 
 
Theorists tested during this quantity are: Rudolf Arnheim, Béla Balázs, Roland Barthes, André Bazin, Walter Benjamin, Judith Butler, Stanley Cavell, Michel Chion, Gilles Deleuze, Jean Douchet, Sergei Eisenstein, Jean Epstein, Michel Foucault, Siegfried Kracauer, Jacques Lacan, Vachel Lindsay, Christian Metz, Hugo Münsterberg, V. F. Perkins, Jacques Rancière, and Jean Rouch.