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'Roland Barthes' Cinema' re-examines and recontextualizes the competing critical and theoretical strands in Barthes's thinking, and reassesses the relevance of his work for a new generation of readers and filmgoers.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Watts, Philip, 1961-2013 (Author)
Other Authors: Andrew, Dudley, 1945- (Editor), Citton, Yves (Editor), Debaene, Vincent (Editor), Iorio, Sam Di (Editor), Barthes, Roland
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Barthes, Roland > Criticism and interpretation.
Barthes, Roland > Critique et interprétation
Barthes, Roland
Barthes, Roland > 1915-1980
Bibel > Philemonbrief
Kino
Motion pictures > Philosophy.
Cinéma > Philosophie.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Motion pictures > Philosophy
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:'Roland Barthes' Cinema' re-examines and recontextualizes the competing critical and theoretical strands in Barthes's thinking, and reassesses the relevance of his work for a new generation of readers and filmgoers.
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:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780190277567
0190277564