Warren Buckland
Biographic Data
| ID | 1153741 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Warren Buckland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Warren |
| FAMILY NAME | Buckland |
| SIGNATURE | BUCKLAND W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oxford Brookes University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9869-9232 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Operationalizing the male gaze
Laura Mulvey’s ‘Visual pleasure and narrative cinema’ (1975) is the most widely cited, heavily anthologized and endlessly summarized essay in Film Studies. It is a foundational text that frames mainstream narrative cinema as a type of discourse that disseminates patriarchal ideology. Rather than summarize the essay again or repeat the many critiques developed by other scholars, this essay presents a line-by-line commentary on Mulvey’s interpretat…
Revisiting Videogame Logic
This paper demonstrates how two logics (narrative and videogame) function in a select number of contemporary blockbuster films. The paper is divided into three sections: The first outlines narrative and videogame logics; the second presents examples from Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010) and Source Code (Duncan Jones, 2011) to demonstrate how videogame logic structures the events in each film; and the third discusses how these logics create spe…
In memory of Thomas Elsaesser (1943-2019)
Film Studies
Hollywood Puzzle Films
From Inception to The Lake House, moviegoers are increasingly flocking to narratologically complex puzzle films. These puzzle movies borrow techniques—like fragmented spatio-temporal reality, time loops, unstable characters with split identities or unreliable narrators—more commonly attributed to art cinema and independent films. The essays in Hollywood Puzzle Films examine the appropriation of puzzle film techniques by contemporary Hollywood dra…
Film as specific signifying practice
This essay presents a commentary on and rational reconstruction of Stephen Heath's influential and groundbreaking essay from 1976: “On screen, in frame: Film and ideology.” As a commentary, it attempts to make explicit the implicit assumptions behind Heath's dense and challenging essay; rewrite and clarify his inexact formulations; and develop a microanalysis of the essay's language. As a rational reconstruction, this essay follows Rudolf Botha's…
A new cultural history of film
The last word on filmic enunciation
The Time of Theory
(1998). The Time of Theory: A History of Tel Quel (1960–1983), by Patrick ffrench. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology: Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 334-335
The Making of an Avant-Garde
Michel Colin and the psychological reality of film semiology
Racism and the press
Understanding utterances
The structural linguistic foundation of film semiology
The structural linguistic foundation of film semiology
Racism and the press
Understanding utterances
Michel Colin and the psychological reality of film semiology
The Making of an Avant-Garde
The Time of Theory
(1998). The Time of Theory: A History of Tel Quel (1960–1983), by Patrick ffrench. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology: Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 334-335
The last word on filmic enunciation
A new cultural history of film
Film as specific signifying practice
This essay presents a commentary on and rational reconstruction of Stephen Heath's influential and groundbreaking essay from 1976: “On screen, in frame: Film and ideology.” As a commentary, it attempts to make explicit the implicit assumptions behind Heath's dense and challenging essay; rewrite and clarify his inexact formulations; and develop a microanalysis of the essay's language. As a rational reconstruction, this essay follows Rudolf Botha's…
Hollywood Puzzle Films
From Inception to The Lake House, moviegoers are increasingly flocking to narratologically complex puzzle films. These puzzle movies borrow techniques—like fragmented spatio-temporal reality, time loops, unstable characters with split identities or unreliable narrators—more commonly attributed to art cinema and independent films. The essays in Hollywood Puzzle Films examine the appropriation of puzzle film techniques by contemporary Hollywood dra…
Film Studies
In memory of Thomas Elsaesser (1943-2019)
Revisiting Videogame Logic
This paper demonstrates how two logics (narrative and videogame) function in a select number of contemporary blockbuster films. The paper is divided into three sections: The first outlines narrative and videogame logics; the second presents examples from Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010) and Source Code (Duncan Jones, 2011) to demonstrate how videogame logic structures the events in each film; and the third discusses how these logics create spe…
Operationalizing the male gaze
Laura Mulvey’s ‘Visual pleasure and narrative cinema’ (1975) is the most widely cited, heavily anthologized and endlessly summarized essay in Film Studies. It is a foundational text that frames mainstream narrative cinema as a type of discourse that disseminates patriarchal ideology. Rather than summarize the essay again or repeat the many critiques developed by other scholars, this essay presents a line-by-line commentary on Mulvey’s interpretat…
Philosophy (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Art history (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Semiotics (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)