Film Theory: An Introduction Through the SensesWhat is the relationship between cinema and spectator? That is the central question for film theory, and renowned film scholars Thomas Elsaesser and Malte Hagener use this question to guide students through all of the major film theories – from the classical period to today – in this insightful, engaging book. Every kind of cinema (and film theory) imagines an ideal spectator, and then imagines a certain relationship between the mind and body of that spectator and the screen. Using seven distinctive configurations of spectator and screen that move progressively from ‘exterior’ to ‘interior’ relationships, the authors retrace the most important stages of film theory from 1945 to the present, from neo-realist and modernist theories to psychoanalytic, ‘apparatus’, phenomenological and cognitivist theories. |
Contents
Cinema as window and frame | |
Cinema as door screen and threshold | |
Cinema as mirror and face | |
Cinema as eye look and gaze | |
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Film Theory: An Introduction Through the Senses Thomas Elsaesser,Malte Hagener No preview available - 2010 |
Film Theory: An Introduction Through the Senses Thomas Elsaesser,Malte Hagener No preview available - 2010 |
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