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Narrative, Apparatus, Ideology A Film Theory Reader

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ISBN-10: 0231058810

ISBN-13: 9780231058810

Edition: 1986

Authors: Philip Rosen

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This book includes many seminal articles by film scholars such as Christian Metz, Jean-Louis Baudry, Stephen Heath, Peter Wollen, Laura Mulvey, and Noel Burch. Also included are articles by the era's leading cultural thinkers: Roland Barthes, Julia Kristeva, and Jean-Francois Lyotard, to name a few. Philip Rosen has carefully organized these essays to open the reader to a number of central issues in film theory including the classical narrative text, oppositional and avant-garde cinema, subject positioning, the cinematic apparatus, and ideology. Rosen's introductions to each section explain the assumptions, ideas, and arguments important to the articles, and help place the essays in the…    
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Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 11/4/1986
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 549
Size: 6.42" wide x 9.29" long x 1.31" tall
Weight: 1.936
Language: English

Philip Rosen is coeditor of Cinema Histories, Cinema Practices.

Structures of Filmic Narrative Introduction: The Saussurian Impulse and Cinema Semiotics
""Classical Hollywood Cinema: Narrational Principles and Procedures""
""Problems of Denotation in the Fiction Film""
""Segmenting/Analyzing""
""The Obvious and the Code""
""The Spectator-in-the-Text: The Rhetoric of Stagecoach""
""Godard and Counter-Cinema: Vent d' Est""
""The Concept of Cinema