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Film Theory: An Introduction through the Senses

By Thomas Elsaesser , Malte Hagener

Book information

Year
2009
ISBN
041580101X, 9780415801010, 0415801001, 9780415801003
LCC
PN1994 .E53 2010
Open Library ID
OL24029501M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
17 MB (18161112 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
232\231
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

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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