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Books by Professor Robert Stam






Multiculturalism, Postcoloniality, and Transnational Media
(Rutgers Depth of Field Series)
by Ella Shohat, Professor Robert Stam, Professor Ana Lopez, Professor Robyn Wiegman, Professor Peter Bloom, Professor Brian Larkin, Professor Hamid Naficy, Professor Inderpal Grewal, Professor Faye Ginsburg, Professor Talitha Espiritu, Professor Manthia Diawara, Professor Jennifer Gonzalez, Professor Julianne Burton-Carvajal, Rutgers University Press
Paperback, 350 Pages, Published 2003 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-3235-6, ISBN: 0-8135-3235-3

"Reflecting the burgeoning academic interest in issues of nation, race, gender, sexuality, and other axes of identity, Multiculturalism, Postcoloniality, and Transnational Media brings all of these concerns under the same umbrella, contending that these issues must be discussed in relation to each other. Communities, societies, nations, and even entire continents, the book suggests, exist not autonomously but rather in a densely woven w ..."






Subversive Pleasures
Bakhtin, Cultural Criticism, and Film (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society)
by Professor Robert Stam
Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 1989 by The Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-3814-9, ISBN: 0-8018-3814-2

"Subversive Pleasures offers the first extended application of Mikhail Bakhtin's critical methods to film, mass-media, and cultural studies. With extraordinary interdisciplinary and multicultural range, Robert Stam explores issues that include the "translinguistic" critique of Saussurean semiotics and Russian formalism, the question of language difference in the cinema, issues of national culture in Latin America, and "the carnivalesque" ..."






A Companion to Literature and Film
by Professor Robert Stam, Alessandra Raengo
480 Pages, Published 2008 by Blackwell Pub
ISBN-13: 978-0-470-99911-0, ISBN: 0-470-99911-X

"He has published extensively both scholarly articles and books on filmic narration and/or early cinema, notably Du littéraire au ... Luke Gibbons, Professor of English and concurrent Professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Theater at the ... His academic interests include film and literature, the visual arts, aesthetics, politics and cultural history, and ... Gaelic Gothic: Race, Colonialism and Irish Culture (2004), c ..."






Race in Translation(1st Edition)
Culture Wars around the Postcolonial Atlantic
by Robert Stam, Ella Shohat, Professor Robert Stam, Michael Bazyler, Roger P. Alford
Paperback, 383 Pages, Published 2012 by Nyu Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-9838-6, ISBN: 0-8147-9838-1

"While the term “culture wars” often designates the heated arguments in the English-speaking world spiraling around race, the canon, and affirmative action, in fact these discussions have raged in diverse sites and languages. Race in Translation charts the transatlantic traffic of the debates within and between three zones—the U.S., France, and Brazil. Stam and Shohat trace the literal and figurative translation of these multidirectional ..."






Unthinking Eurocentrism(2nd Edition)
Multiculturalism and the Media (Sightlines)
by Ella Shohat, Professor Robert Stam
Hardcover, 508 Pages, Published 2014 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-53859-6, ISBN: 0-415-53859-9

"Unthinking Eurocentrism, a seminal and award-winning work in postcolonial studies first published in 1994, explored Eurocentrism as an interlocking network of buried premises, embedded narratives, and submerged tropes that constituted a broadly shared epistemology. Within a transdisciplinary study, the authors argued that the debates about Eurocentrism and post/coloniality must be considered within a broad ..."






Flagging Patriotism
by Professor Robert Stam, Ella Shohat
Hardcover, 392 Pages, Published 2006 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-97954-2, ISBN: 0-415-97954-4






François Truffaut and Friends
Modernism, Sexuality, and Film Adaptation
by Professor Robert Stam
Paperback, 262 Pages, Published 2006 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-3725-2, ISBN: 0-8135-3725-8

""Supple and sophisticated, Francois Truffaut and Friends tells an affecting story--several stories--and does so with verve."--Dudley Andrew, Professor of Comparative Literature and Film Studies, Yale University "An original and fascinating study that spins out from Truffaut's Jules and Jim to explore the world of literature, film, and avant-garde sexuality."--James Naremore, author of More Than Night: Film Noir and Its Contexts "A fas ..."






Flagging Patriotism
by Professor Robert Stam
Paperback, 392 Pages, Published 2006 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-97955-9, ISBN: 0-415-97955-2






Brazil in the Making(Updated)
Facets of National Identity (Latin American Silhouettes)
by Carmen Nava, Contributor-Cristina Antunes, Contributor-Dain Borges, Contributor-James Green, Contributor-Efrain Kristal, Contributor-Cristina Magaldi, Contributor-Robert Stam, Contributor-Valéria Torres, Contributor-José Mindlin, Ludwig Lauerhass Jr., Elizabeth A. Marchant, José Luis Passos, Professor Robert Stam, Contributor-Elizabe
Hardcover, 248 Pages, Published 2006 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-0-7425-3756-9, ISBN: 0-7425-3756-0

"This innovative volume traces Brazil's singular character, exploring both the remarkable richness and cohesion of the national culture and the contradictions and tensions that have developed over time. What shared experiences give its citizens their sense of being Brazilian? What memories bind them together? What metaphors and stereotypes of identity have emerged? Which groups are privileged over others in idealized representations of t ..."






New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics
Structuralism, Post-structuralism, and Beyond
by Professor Robert Stam, Robert Burgoyne, Sandy Flitterman-Lewis
256 Pages, Published 2005 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-203-97719-4, ISBN: 0-203-97719-X

"Robert Stam. didactic texts of Jonathan Culler and Christopher Norris on issues of structural linguistics and deconstruction ... of the structure of the book; Robert Burgoyne was fundamentally responsible for Part III, and Sandy Flitterman-Lewis was fundamentally responsible for Part IV. ... Allen, John Belton, Edward Branigan, Joel Lewis, Christian Metz, David Nelson, R. Barton Palmer, Tova Shaban and xiv."






Documenting the Documentary(98th Edition)
Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video
by Jim Leach, Bill Nichols, Lucy Fischer, Linda Williams, Joan Nicks, Bart Testa, Jeanne Hall, Carl Plantinga, Sheila Petty, Julia Lesage, Caryl Flinn, Jeannette Sloniowski, Diane Scheinman, Barry Keith Grant, Frank P. Tomasulo, Professor Robert Stam, Professor William Rothman, Professor Thomas Waugh, Professor Charlie Keil, Seth Feldman, Vivian Sobchack, Joanne Hershfield, William Guynn, Jeffrey K. Ruoff, Sandy Flitterman-Lewis, William Rothman, Charlie Keil, Thomas Waugh, Robert Stam, Matthew Bernstein, Virginia Bonner, Leshu Torchin, Paula J. Massood, David T. Johnson, John R. Cook, Reviewer Charlie Keil, Reviewer Thomas Waugh
Paperback, 488 Pages, Published 1998 by Wayne State University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8143-2639-8, ISBN: 0-8143-2639-0

"Documenting the Documentary features essays by twenty-seven film scholars from a wide range of critical and theoretical perspectives. Each essay focuses on one or two important documentaries, engaging in questions surrounding ethics, ideology, politics, power, race, gender, and representation -- but always in terms of how they arise out of or are involved in the reading of specific documentaries as particular textual constructions. By c ..."






New Latin American Cinema, Volume 2(1st Edition)
Studies of National Cinemas
by Michael T. Martin, Julianne Burton, Timothy Barnard, Marvin D'lugo, Glauber Rocha, Carlos Diegues, Ismail Xavier, John King, John Ramírez, Charles Berg, Robert Stam, Randal Johnson, John Hess, Carl J. Mora, Catherine Benamou, David R. Maciel, Catherine L. Benamou, David William Foster, Professor Robert Stam, Zuzana M. Pick, Reviewer Charles Berg, John Hess Md, Professor Randal Johnson, Frances Negrón-Muntaner, Paulo Antonio Paranaguá, Paulo Em Gomes
Paperback, 540 Pages, Published 1997 by Wayne State University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8143-2586-5, ISBN: 0-8143-2586-6

"Mapping the historical and cultural contexts of film practices in Latin America, this two-volume collection of programmatic statements, esays and interviews is devoted to the study of a theorized, dynamic and unfinished cinematic movement. Forged by Latin America's post-colonial environment of underdevelopment and dependency, the New Latin American Cinema movement has sought to inscribe itself in Latin America's struggles for cultural a ..."






Hitchcock's Rereleased Films(33rd Edition)
From Rope to Vertigo (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series)
by Walter Raubicheck, Walter Srebnick, Ann Cvetkovich, Thomas M. Bauso, Lesley Brill, Professor John Belton, Professor Ina Rae Hark, Anthony J. Mazzella, Doug Tomlinson, Ann West, Robert G. Goulet, Thomas Hemmeter, Professor Robert Stam, William G. Simon, Samuel Taylor, Katie Trumpener, Robin Wood, Reviewer Thomas Leitch, Andrew Sarris, Andrew X. Sarris
Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 1991 by Wayne State University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8143-2326-7, ISBN: 0-8143-2326-X

"Anthony J. Mazzella In the 1973 video interview prepared by Richard Schickel and aired on PBS, Alfred Hitchcock commented on a link between literature and film: "Literature," Hitchcock said, "can [create an emotion] by the way the language is used or the words are put together. But sometimes you find that a film is looked at solely for its content without any regard to the style or manner in which the story is told. And, after all, ..."






Literature and Film
A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Film Adaptation
by Professor Robert Stam
Published 2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-470-70530-8, ISBN: 0-470-70530-2






Race in Translation(Updated)
Culture Wars around the Postcolonial Atlantic Stam, Robert and Shohat, Ella
by Professor Robert Stam, Ella Shohat, John Taylor
Hardcover, 383 Pages, Published 2012 by New York University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-9837-9, ISBN: 0-8147-9837-3

"While the term "culture wars" often designates the heated arguments in the English-speaking world spiraling around race, the canon, and affirmative action, in fact these discussions have raged in diverse sites and languages. Race in Translation charts the transatlantic traffic of the debates within and between three zones--the U.S., France, and Brazil. Stam and Shohat trace the literal and figurative translation of these multidirectiona ..."






A Companion to Film Theory
by Professor Toby Miller, Robert Stam
440 Pages, Published 2008 by Blackwell Pub
ISBN-13: 978-0-470-99840-3, ISBN: 0-470-99840-7

"Narration1. AndreÂ. Gaudreault. and. FrancËois. Jost. There are no stories without a storytelling instance. Virtually all narratologists agree on this point. Films differ, however, from novels in that a film can show an action rather than tell it. In that regime of showing (monstration), notably in theatrical staging or in the `` documentary'' recordings of the LumieÁre Brothers, the discursive instance is less apparent than in a wr ..."






Brazilian Cinema
(Film and Culture Series)
by Randal Johnson, Robert -. Editors Stam, Professor Randal Johnson
Paperback, 491 Pages, Published 1996 by Columbia University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-231-10267-4, ISBN: 0-231-10267-4

"Xica (Zeze Motta), a slave belonging to Arraial de Tijuco's master sergeant, appears before Joao Fernandes's arrival in the town. She is first seen sitting on the ground of the courtyard of her master's house and is soon interrupted by the sergeant's son, Jose, who later runs off to Vila Rica, the capital of the region, to join a rebellion against colonial rule. The rebellion, which is not seen but merely mentioned in the film, is ..."






A Companion to Literature and Film
by Professor Robert Stam
Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-470-70529-2, ISBN: 0-470-70529-9






Teorias Del Cine/ Film Theory
Una Introduccion / an Introduction (Paidos Comunicacion / Paidos Communication) (Spanish Edition)
by Professor Robert Stam, Carles Roche Suárez
Paperback, 418 Pages, Published 2001 by Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A
ISBN-13: 978-84-493-1063-8, ISBN: 84-493-1063-6

"El presente libro ofrece una historia exhaustiva de las teorías del cine durante el siglo XX. El texto recorre el camino que va desde teóricos del cine mudo como Vachel Lindsay y Hugo Munsterberg hasta los últimos capítulos de la teoría cinematográfica y los estudios culturales (la teoría cognitiva, Deleuze, la teoría homosexual, la teoría poscolonial, la teoría digital) y da cuenta de fenómenos desarrollados en países como Francia, Ale ..."






Multiculturalismo, cine y medios de comunicacion / Multiculturalism, Film and Media
Critica del pensamiento eurocentrico (Paidos Comunicacion Cine 130) (Spanish Edition)
by Professor Robert Stam, Ella Shohat, Ignacio Rodríguez Sánchez, Shohat Y. Stam
Paperback, 370 Pages, Published 2002 by Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A
ISBN-13: 978-84-493-1180-2, ISBN: 84-493-1180-2

"En este libro, el multiculturalismo y la crítica del eurocentrismo son dos conceptos inseparables, pues relaciona dos temas que a menudo se relegan a ámbitos reservados a los especialistas: por un lado, los debates referentes a las políticas de identidad y raza; por otro, los debates sobre el discurso (pos)colonial y el nacionalismo en el Tercer Mundo. Stam y Shohat sitúan la cultura popular en el centro mismo de estos debates posmodern ..."



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