Questions of cinema
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Questions of cinema
Indiana University Press, c1981
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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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.
Table of Contents
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
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