Formalism and its Discontents......

In this article by Dana B. Cohen she discusses about formalist in it having some discontents in the contemporary media. Media which includes a variety of Western and Foreign cinema. Cohen goes on to touch on other topics of film theory also.

Dana says, "Formalism is two fold. it grants force to a practice on the basis of internal qualities of that practice.....
then second formalism assumes that the force which it has thus imputed to a form will tend to be the same for spectators."