Spectatorship and Film Theory The Wayward Spectator /

This book interrogates the relation between film spectatorship and film theory in order to criticise some of the disciplinary and authoritarian assumptions of 1970s apparatus theory, without dismissing its core political concerns. Theory, in this perspective, should not be seen as a practice distinc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Comanducci, Carlo (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Subjects:
Motion pictures.
Aesthetics.
ISBN:9783319967431
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Film theory, a divided passion?
  • 2. The heteronomy of subjectivity and the spectator's emancipation
  • 3. Everyday film theory
  • 4. Situatedness and contingency of film experience
  • 5. The process of free association and film as an evocative object
  • 6. The indeterminacy of embodiment
  • 7. The spectator as a history of encounters.

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