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Breaking the Fourth Wall : Direct Address in the Cinema / Tom Brown.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (208 p.) : 20 B/W illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780748644254
  • 9780748644261
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.436
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.D49 B76 2012
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of figures -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction: direct address in film history, theory and criticism -- Chapter 2 Counter-looks: direct address and counter-cinema -- Chapter 3 Looks of invitation: comedic and musical direct address -- Chapter 4 Le Notti di Cabiria (1957) -- Chapter 5 High Fidelity (2000) -- Chapter 6 La Ronde (1950) -- Chapter 7 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748644261','ISBN:9780748644254']);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."
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780748644261

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of figures -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction: direct address in film history, theory and criticism -- Chapter 2 Counter-looks: direct address and counter-cinema -- Chapter 3 Looks of invitation: comedic and musical direct address -- Chapter 4 Le Notti di Cabiria (1957) -- Chapter 5 High Fidelity (2000) -- Chapter 6 La Ronde (1950) -- Chapter 7 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

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GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748644261','ISBN:9780748644254']);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."

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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