Film Theory: An Introduction Through the Senses

Film Theory: An Introduction Through the Senses
ISBN-10
1135967067
ISBN-13
9781135967062
Series
Film Theory
Category
Social Science
Pages
226
Language
English
Published
2009-12-16
Publisher
Routledge
Authors
Thomas Elsaesser, Malte Hagener

Description

What 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.

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