Film and Cinema Spectatorship: Melodrama and MimesisPolity, 14 sty 2005 - 274 Film and Cinema Spectatorship provides a clear and wide-ranging introduction to different debates and traditions of viewing cinema. In this new book, Jan Campbell offers a comprehensive account of the different theoretical perspectives on film and cinema spectatorship, situating these in their cultural and historical contexts. Among the perspectives covered are those of feminism, modernism and cultural studies, with chapters dedicated to important topics such as early film, stars and film aesthetics. Campbell also provides accessible explorations of the importance of key themes to film and cinema spectatorship, such as mimesis, melodrama, performance and time. The timely and comprehensive text will be essential reading for anyone interested in debates on film theory, psychoanalysis and film, and the history of cinema. This book will be of special interest to students of film studies, media studies and cultural studies. |
Spis treści
Introduction | 1 |
Introduction to Part I | 25 |
Sexual Difference Melodrama and Film Theory | 35 |
The SexualDifference Spectator in Weimar Cinema | 57 |
Film Theory and the Visual Body | 81 |
Introduction to Part II | 107 |
Perception and Early Film | 110 |
Early Film Spectatorship | 135 |
Introduction to Part III | 161 |
Cultural Studies Ethnography and the Real Film Spectator | 166 |
Stars and Melodrama | 189 |
Film Aesthetics and Cultural ReMemory | 212 |
Notes | 236 |
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aesthetics analysis Apparatus theory argues audience becomes Benjamin bodily body Boys Don't Cry Brandon Caligari camera Charcot cinema of attractions desire disassociation disavowal disembodied Doanne dominant dream early film Elsaesser embodied imaginary emotional experience fantasy female spectator femininity feminist film feminist film theory film spectator film spectatorship film studies film theory filmic image Foucault Freud gender genre Gledhill Hansen heterosexual hieroglyphs hysteria hysterical mimesis Ibid identification identity ideology intersubjective Irigaray Jung Key points Kracauer Lacan Lacanian language Lars von Trier London male gaze masculinity masquerade mass ornament melancholic melodrama memory Mildred Pierce mimesis mimetic mimicry modernity moves myth narcissistic notion object Oedipal complex Oedipal narrative optical unconscious perception performance phenomenological photograph postmodern psychic psychoanalysis psychological psychotic R.D. Laing re-memory re-reading reading realism relation representation repressed screen sexual difference Siegfried Kracauer social split suggests symbolic tion tradition transl understanding Walter Benjamin Weimar cinema women