
Gaston Roberge defines film theory and discusses its basics before giving a lucid account of the shift from an idealist mode of thinking to a materialist one which occurred around the mid-60s as part of a larger intellectual revolution, and led to a profound renewal of film theory under the joint influence of three main intellectual currents- structuralism, Marxism and feminism; and three main disciplines- semiotics, psychoanalysis and linguistics.
Gaston Roberge is a media critic with several publications to his credit. His works include Another Cinema for Another Society, Eisensteins Ivan the Terrible: An analysis, and Films for an Ecology of Mind.