Roland Barthes' Cinema

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-027754-3
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 471 g

The most famous name in French literary circles from the late 1950s till his death in 1981, Roland Barthes maintained a contradictory rapport with the cinema. As a cultural critic, he warned of its surreptitious ability to lead the enthralled spectator toward an acceptance of a pre-given world. As a leftist, he understood that spectacle could be turned against itself and provoke deep questioning of that pre-given world. And as an extraordinarily sensitive human being, he relished the beauty of images and the community they could bring together.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Watts

Watts, Philip

Andrew, Dudley

Citton, Yves

Debaene, Vincent

Di Iorio, Sam

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Editors' Preface

- Introduction

- Chapter One - A Degraded Spectacle

- Chapter Two - Refresh the Perception of the World

- Chapter Three - Barthes and Bazin

- Chapter Four- Another Revolution

- Chapter Five - Exiting the Movie Theater

- Chapter Six - The Melodramatic Imagination

- Conclusion - From Barthes to Rancière?

- Interview With Jacques Rancière

- Nine Texts on the Cinema by Roland Barthes

- Barthes and Cinema: A Bibliography

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Philip Watts was Professor of French at Columbia University and Chair of the department from 2008 to 2012. A specialist of twentieth-century French literature and film, he is the author of Allegories of the Purge: How Literature Responded to the Postwar Trials of Writers and Intellectuals in France and co-editor of Jacques Rancière: History, Politics, Aesthetics.