It looks at you : the returned gaze of cinema
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It looks at you : the returned gaze of cinema
（SUNY series in postmodern culture / Joseph Natoli, editor）
State University of New York Press, c1995
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. 203-226
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book is a study of one of the most insidious and pervasive phenomena in the study and reception of cinema: the "returned gaze" from the screen, in which the audience is actually surveilled by the film being projected on the screen. Rather than the usual process of watching a film, in those films which return the gaze of the viewer, the film looks at us, confronting our voyeur's embrace of the spectacle it presents. The book cites examples as diverse as Andy Warhol's Vinyl, Laurel and Hardy two-reel comedies, the films of Jean-Marie Straub, Jean-Luc Godard, Roberto Rossellini, and Wesley E. Barry's Creation of the Humanoids. It also discusses the history of the returned gaze in video, pornography, surveillance systems, and the related plastic arts.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Chapter One
It Looks at You: The Returned Gaze of Cinema/Video Reception
Chapter Two
Surveillance in the Cinema: The Black Box
Chapter Three
The Trans/Gendered Gaze: The "I" of the Beholder
Chapter Four
The Politics of Desire: Spectacles of the Forbidden
Chapter Five
Dreams of the State: Control of the Spectatorial Body
Chapter Six
The Armed Response: The Screen's Gaze Returned, or the Gorgon's Mirror
Bibliography
Index
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