Questions of Cinema

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Indiana University Press, 1981 - Performing Arts - 257 pages
"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.
 

Contents

Film and Ideology
1
Narrative Space
19
On Suture
76
Film Performance
113
Film System Narrative
131
The Question Oshima
145
Notes Around Structuralmaterialist Film
165
Body Voice
176
Language Sight and Sound
194
Technology as Historical and Cultural Form
221
Contexts
236
Films
247
Names
250
Terms and themes
254
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