Questions of Cinema
Published on 22. December 1982
Book
Paperback/Softback
268 pages
978-0-253-15914-4 (ISBN)
Description
"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.
" . . . 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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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Bloomington, IN
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
28 b&w photos
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
399 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-253-15914-4 (9780253159144)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Preface
1 On Screen, in Frame: Film and Ideology
2 Narrative Space
3 On Suture
4 Film Performance
5 Film, System, Narrative
6 The Question Oshima
7 Repetition Time: Notes Around 'Structural/materialist Film'
8 Body, Voice
9 Language, Sight and Sound
10 The Cinematic Apparatus: Technology as Historical and Cultural Form
11 Contexts
Indexes:
Films
Names
Terms and themes
1 On Screen, in Frame: Film and Ideology
2 Narrative Space
3 On Suture
4 Film Performance
5 Film, System, Narrative
6 The Question Oshima
7 Repetition Time: Notes Around 'Structural/materialist Film'
8 Body, Voice
9 Language, Sight and Sound
10 The Cinematic Apparatus: Technology as Historical and Cultural Form
11 Contexts
Indexes:
Films
Names
Terms and themes