Breaking the Fourth Wall

Direct Address in the Cinema

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

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Beskrivning

What happens when fictional characters acknowledge our 'presence' as film spectators? By virtue of its eccentricity and surprising frequency as a filmic device, direct address enables us to ask some fundamental questions of film theory, history and criticism and tackle, head-on, assumptions about the cinema as a medium. Brown provides a broad understanding of the role of direct address within fiction cinema, with focused analysis of its role in certain strands of avant-garde or experimental cinema, on the one hand, and popular genre traditions (musicals and comedies) on the other.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-08-12
Mått:156 x 234 x 12 mm
Vikt:318 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:188
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9780748683079

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Film inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Tom Brown is Lecturer in Film Studies at King's College London.

Recensioner i media

BREAKING THE FOURTH WALL is a probing study of the ways in which an actor or a character in a movie sometimes looks at the camera and addresses us in the audience. This is often taken simply to dispel the illusion, but in his book Tom Brown sensitively examines different forms of direct address and explicates how various and complex its effect can be.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction: direct address in film history, theory and criticism; 2. Counter-looks: direct address and counter-cinema; 3. Looks of invitation: comedic and musical direct address; 4. Le Notti di Cabiria (1957); 5. High Fidelity (2000); 6. La Ronde (1950); 7. Conclusion.