| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Film Theory, Cinema, the Body, and the Senses; 1 Cinema as Window and Frame; 2 Cinema as Door -- Screen and Threshold; 3 Cinema as Mirror -- Face and Close-Up; 4 Cinema as Eye -- Look and Gaze; 5 Cinema as Skin -- Body and Touch; 6 Cinema as Ear -- Acoustics and Space; 7 Cinema as Brain -- Mind and Body; 8 Digital Cinema and Film Theory -The Body Digital; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
What is the relationship between cinema and spectator? This is the key question for film theory, and one that Thomas Elsaesser and Malte Hagener put at the center of their insightful and engaging book, now revised from its popular first edition. Every kind of cinema (and every film theory) first imagines an ideal spectator, and then maps certain dynamic interactions between the screen and the spectator's mind, body and senses. Using seven distinctive configurations of spectator and screen that move progressively from 'exterior' to 'interior' relationships, the authors retrace the most importan |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 19 2015) |
| Subject |
Motion pictures.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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Motion pictures
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Filmtheorie
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Films.
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Zintuigen.
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Publiek.
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Filosofische aspecten.
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Psychologische aspecten.
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Filmteori.
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| Genre/Form |
Motion pictures
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Motion pictures.
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Films.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hagener, Malte, 1971- author.
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| LC no. |
2014037890 |
| ISBN |
9781317581154 |
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1317581156 |
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9781315740768 |
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1315740761 |
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9781317581147 |
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1317581148 |
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9781317581130 |
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131758113X |
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