Roland Barthes' cinema /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Watts, Philip (Author)
Other Authors: Andrew, Dudley, 1945- (Editor), Barthes, Roland
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Description
Item Description:Editor's preface -- Introduction -- A degraded spectacle. The interpreter and the sensualist -- Roman hair -- A Cold War cinema -- Demystification, 1957 -- The face of Garbo -- Rrefresh the perception of the world. On cinemascope -- Barthes and the New Wave -- Barthes and Bazin. Lost continent From ontology to rhetoric and back -- Camera Lucida -- Another revolution. The fetishist -- Eisenstein, 1970 -- From leftocracy to affect and intimacy -- Exiting the movie theater. The science of filmology -- Apparatus theory -- The aestheticization of the world -- A long conversation with Christian Metz -- Exiting theory -- The melodramatic imagination. The Brontë sisters -- The New Wave melodramatic turn -- Michel Foucault's melodramatic imagination -- Barthes and Foucault -- Barthes and Truffaut: Melodramatic photography -- Conclusion: From Barthes to Rancière -- Interview with Jacques Rancière -- Texts on the cinema by Roland Barthes: The angels of sin (on Bresson's Les anges du péché) -- On CinemaScope -- Versailles and its accounts -- Cinema, right and left (on Cabrol's Le beau serge) -- On leftist criticism -- Traumatic units in cinema: research principles -- Preface to Les inconnus de la terre -- James Bond -- Sade Pasolini (on Salò) -- Barthes and cinema: a bibliography.
Physical Description:xxviii, 185 pages ; 21 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780190277543
0190277548
9780190277550
0190277556