Modern movie theories, nurtured by the political and ideological climates of the late 1960s Europe, blossomed academically in Europe and North America in the mid 1970s. Among the theories, subject-position theory and culturalism need special distincti...
Modern movie theories, nurtured by the political and ideological climates of the late 1960s Europe, blossomed academically in Europe and North America in the mid 1970s. Among the theories, subject-position theory and culturalism need special distinction. Being connected with and formed by the various academic ideas such as linguistics, philosophy, psychology, literature, etc., they are unified and integrated theories, containing several essential and cognitive hypotheses. Their central concepts are ideology, subject, and culture and they have led the movie history in the 1970s and 80s.
Various small theories on movies are derived from these theories. They focus on forms and contents of movies with the localized and practical attitudes and have a special interest in the movies and their history of individual states. These small theories are characterized by (1)emphasis on experience and problems rather than on theory building itself, (2)research on movie industry, genre, technology, narrative, and women, (3)cognitive approach, and (4)synthetical methodology.
More recent movie theories part company with the traditional ones of which main concepts were based on subject, representation, structure, and culture. The new ones, being in tune with the era of cyberspace and simulation, are more interested in birth, kinetics, and change. They are more plural, interpretative, and complex.