Questions of Cinema
- ISBN-10
- 1349165794
- ISBN-13
- 9781349165797
- Category
- Cinematography
- Pages
- 257
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1981-08-01
- Publisher
- Macmillan International Higher Education
- Author
- Stephen Heath
Description
Annotation "It is essential reading for anyone concerned with the theoretical discussion of cinema, and ideology in general."--Semiotica .". Heath is an antidote to the Cinema 101 worldview." -- Voice Literary Supplement Heath's study of film draws on Lacanian psychoanalysis, semiotics, and Marxism, presenting film as a signifying practice and the cinema as a social institution of meanings.
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