Questions of Cinema

by Stephen Heath

Overview

"It is essential reading for anyone concerned with the theoretical discussion of cinema, and ideology in general." —Semiotica

" . . . Heath is an antidote to the Cinema 101 worldview." —Voice Literary Supplement

Heath's study of film draws on Lacanian psychoanalysis, semiotics, and Marxism, presenting film as a signifying practice and the cinema as a social institution of meanings.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780253159144
Publisher:	Indiana University Press
Publication date:	12/22/1982
Series:	Theories of Representation and Difference
Pages:	268
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Preface

1 On Screen, in Frame: Film and Ideology
2 Narrative Space
3 On Suture
4 Film Performance
5 Film, System, Narrative
6 The Question Oshima
7 Repetition Time: Notes Around 'Structural/materialist Film'
8 Body, Voice
9 Language, Sight and Sound
10 The Cinematic Apparatus: Technology as Historical and Cultural Form
11 Contexts

Indexes:
Films
Names
Terms and themes