Film Analysis Theory and Literary Criticism

Film Analysis Theory

• Author Dependent Theory: Focuses on the author's perspective and background.
• Text Dependent Theory: Focuses on the form, style, and structure of the literary text.
• Readers Dependent Theory: Focuses on the reader's perspective and interpretation.

Literary Criticism

• Biographical Criticism: Understanding an author’s life to comprehend the work.
• Cultural Criticism: Focuses on historical, social, political, and economic contexts.
• Deconstructionism: Critical dismantling of tradition.
• Feminist Criticism: Corrects male-dominated perspectives with a feminist consciousness.
• Formalist Criticism: Focuses on language, diction, and tone.
• New Criticism: Close textual analysis or "close reading".
• Russian Formalism: Emphasizes form over content and context.
• Gender Criticism: Explores socially constructed ideas about masculinity and femininity.
• Historical Criticism: Uses history to understand literary work.
• Marxist Criticism: Focuses on the ideological content based on Karl Marx.
• Moral-Philosophical Criticism: Evaluates work based on ethical, philosophical, or religious systems.
• Mythological Criticism: Identifies elements creating deep universal responses.
• New Historicism: Emphasizes interaction between historical context and modern understanding.
• Postcolonial Criticism: Focuses on the study of cultural behavior and expression.
• Psychological Criticism: Draws upon psychoanalytic theories.
• Queer Criticism: Inquires into natural and unnatural behavior, focusing on the representation of homosexuals in literature.
• Reader Response Criticism: Focuses on the reader.
• Sociological Criticism: Examines social groups, relationships, and values.
• Structuralism: Examines how literary texts arrive at meanings and implied patterns.