Salvation from cinema : the medium is the message /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Downing, Crystal (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, [2016]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : toward a union of medium and message
  • Part I. Theories of film salvation. Let there be enlightenment : salvation from religion and film
  • Light from light : seeing cinema constellations
  • Gazing at the stars : nudity on screen
  • Breaking the fourth wall : salvation from the screen
  • Part II. Salvation from film theory. Enlightenment as mass deception : certain tendencies in film theory
  • The gift of salvation : Derrida and Holocaust cinema
  • Seeing cinema differently : salvation from Charles Sanders Peirce
  • From delusion to Deleuzean cinema : salvation from Hugo.