| Series |
Short cuts |
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Short cuts (London, England)
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| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 128-137) and index. |
| Contents |
The birth of the spectator -- Spectatorship and difference: gender and the rub of submission -- Spectatorship as masochism: the pleasure of unpleasure -- Ethics and spectatorship: response, responsibility and the moving image. |
| Summary |
"Spectatorship cuts a path through the dense undergrowth of the debate on spectatorship. Film, like all visual culture, offers the possibility, and the pleasure, of seeing things we would not normally be able to see: cinema makes a spectacle of the everyday and turns the spectacular into commonplace. But, what does it actually mean that spectatorship involves our sharing in or witnessing the private or intimate acts of others, or that it depends upon our enjoyment of events that often represent a gross break with legal or social mores? This study explores these and related issues via a detailed consideration of Hollywood classics such as Double Indemnity (1944) and non-mainstream films such as The Idiots (1998) and The Five Obstructions (2003)."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Appreciation.
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Motion picture audiences.
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| Collection |
Ex libris Garza, Armida de la
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| ISBN |
1905674015 |
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9781905674015 |
| Description |
139 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
| Content type |
text |
| Media type |
unmediated |
| Carrier type |
volume |
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