Inside the Gaze The Fiction Film and Its Spectator |
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| Author:
| Casetti, Francesco |
| Translator:
| O'Brien, Charles
Andrew, Nell |
| ISBN: | 978-0-253-21232-0 |
| Publication Date: | May 1999 |
| Publisher: | Indiana University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $17.95 |
Book Description:
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.."". will add much to the repertoire of film scholarship... "" --Choice
This film theory classic brings semiotics and psychoanalytic concepts to bear on the film experience, to answer questions such as: In what way does film address its spectator? How does the film prefigure the spectator? Is the film aware of its orientation towards its spectator? And to what extent does it posit itself as the spectator's lead?
.."". will add much to the repertoire of film scholarship... "" --Choice
This film theory classic brings semiotics and psychoanalytic concepts to bear on the film experience, to answer questions such as: In what way does film address its spectator? How does the film prefigure the spectator? Is the film aware of its orientation towards its spectator? And to what extent does it posit itself as the spectator's lead?