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-	'''Film theory''' debates the essence of the [[film|cinema]] and provides conceptual frameworks for understanding film's relationship to [[reality]], the other [[art]]s, individual viewers, and [[society]] at large.	+
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-	Film theory is about the cinema as a medium rather than about individual films, although theorists often use individual films as examples in generating their theories and film theory is frequently applied to discussions of individual films. Film theory is generally distinguished from [[film criticism]], which concentrates on evaluating individual films. Film theory can also be distinguished from film analysis, which aims to describe how specific features of a film relate to each other in the structure of a film (or body of films) as a whole. Thus, a film ''theory'' might note that a film is unlike reality in that a viewer cannot control what he or she sees; a film ''analysis'' might note that a specific shot restricts the viewer's knowledge of a future plot point; and film ''criticism'' might praise the [[cinematographer]]'s use of framing to increase suspense.	+
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-	[[David Bordwell vs Slavoj Žižek]]	+
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