Questions of Cinema"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 |
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absence action analysis André Bazin apparatus articulation body Brecht Cahiers du cinéma camera camera obscura centre character Christian Metz classical cinema codes coherence concept construction context crucial desire effect Eisenstein exactly example fact fiction film theory film's filmic frame Freud function geisha given hence Hogarth Press Ibid identification ideological illusion imaginary individual as subject inner speech instance Jacques Lacan Joan Fontaine Kichi Lacan language limits linguistic logic London look meaning memory ment metonymy Metz movement narration narrative film narrativization object operation Oshima Oudart Ozu's Paris perspective phallus play point of view posed position present problem production psychoanalysis question reality relation repetition representation scene Screen vol seen sense Seuil sexual shot signifier simply social sound space spatial specific spectator Straub-Huillet stress Structural Film structural/materialist film structure suture symbolic tion Touch of Evil translation unconscious unity vision voice voyeurism woman