All Film Theory

Theoretical accounts of what film is and how it produces its effect, as distinct from the practical techniques grouped under film technique or the audience-reception theories grouped under media studies. Belongs here: auteur theory, the claim that a film's director is its primary author, and persistence of vision, the historical explanation offered for the illusion of motion in projected film, recorded here with its current scholarly standing rather than as settled fact. Does not belong here: editing and construction technique, grouped under film technique, or industry structure, grouped under media industry.