Film theory : an introduction through the senses / Thomas Elsaesser and Malte Hagener.
What is the relationship between cinema and spectator? This is the key question for film theory, and one that Thomas Elsaesser and Malte Hagener put at the center of their insightful and engaging book, now revised from its popular first edition. Every kind of cinema (and every film theory) first ima...
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Full Text (via ProQuest) |
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| Main Authors: | , |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2015.
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| Edition: | 2nd edition. |
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| Summary: | What is the relationship between cinema and spectator? This is the key question for film theory, and one that Thomas Elsaesser and Malte Hagener put at the center of their insightful and engaging book, now revised from its popular first edition. Every kind of cinema (and every film theory) first imagines an ideal spectator, and then maps certain dynamic interactions between the screen and the spectator's mind, body and senses. Using seven distinctive configurations of spectator and screen that move progressively from 'exterior' to 'interior' relationships, the authors retrace the most importan. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781317581154 1317581156 9781315740768 1315740761 9781317581147 1317581148 9781317581130 131758113X |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 19 2015). |