Reading Time: 17 minutesOverview Screen Theory is a group of ideas about cinema developed in Britain during the 1970s, centered on the film studies journal Screen. Its leading figures included the journal’s editors Colin MacCabe and Stephen Heath, alongside Laura Mulvey, and it drew on Louis Althusser’s theory of ideology and Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalysis. Its central claim is… Continue reading What Is Screen Theory? A Film Studies Guide