Cinema, or the Imaginary Man

Name: Cinema, or the Imaginary Man
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ISBN: 9780816640386

ISBN-10: 0816640386

ISBN-13: 9780816640386

Edition: 2005

Authors: Edgar. Morin, Lorraine Mortimer

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First published in 1956, the original French edition was one of the first attempts to treat motion pictures as a genre of cultural expression worthy of academic study in the social sciences.

Book details

Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 6/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Lorraine Mortimer is senior lecturer of sociology and anthropology at La Trobe University, Australia.



Contents Translator's


Acknowledgments


Translator's Introduction The Cinema or The Imaginary Man: An Essay in Sociological Anthropology Prologue



The Cinema, the Airplane



The Charm of the Image



Metamorphosis of the Cinematograph into the Cinema



The Soul of the Cinema



Objective Presence



The Complex of Dream and Reality



Birth of a Reason, Blossoming of a Language



The Semi-Imaginary Reality of Man Author's Preface to the 1977 Edition Notes


Bibliography


Index