Table of Contents
List of Illustrations vii
Introduction ix
Part I Stereotype Theory: Concepts, Perspectives, and Controversies
1 The Stereotype in Psychology and the Humanities 3
2 Some Aspects and Levels of Stereotypization in Film 42
3 The Intellectual Viewpoint Versus the Stereotype in Mass Culture 96
Part II A Discourse History: The Topic of the "Stereotype" Throughout Film Theory
4 Prelude: Walther Rathenau's Cultural Criticism, Hugo Münsterberg's Euphoric Concept of Film as Art, and the Neglect of the Stereotype 123
5 Béla Balázs's New Visual Culture, the Tradition of Linguistic Skepticism, and Robert Musil's Notion of the "Formulaic" 134
6 The Readymade Products of the Fantasy Machine: Rudolf Arnheim, René fülöp-Miller, and the Discourse on the "Standardization" of Film 154
7 The Stereotype as Intelligible Form: Cohen-Séat, Morin, and Semiology 186
8 Irony and Transfiguration: The Postmodern View of the Stereotype 210
Part III Film Analysis: Critique and Transfiguration-Three Case Studies
9 Mccabe and Buffalo Bill: On the Critical Reflection of Stereotypes in Two Films Robert Altman 237
10 Enjoying the Stereotype and Intense Double-Play Acting: The Performance of Jennifer Jason Leigh in the Hudsucker Proxy 262
Epilogue 277
Notes 281
Bibliography 333
Filmography 357
Index 361