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Roland Barthes' cinema /

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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
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Roland Barthes' Cinema; Copyright; Contents; Editors' Preface; Introduction; 1. A Degraded Spectacle; The Interpreter and the Sensualist; Roman Hair; A Cold War Cinema; Demystification, 1957; "The Face of Garbo"; 2. Refresh the Perception of the World; "On CinemaScope"; Barthes and the New Wave; 3. Barthes and Bazin; Lost Continent; From Ontology to Rhetoric and Back; Camera Lucida; 4. Another Revolution; The Fetishist; Eisenstein, 1970; Coda: From Leftocracy to Affect and Intimacy; 5. Leaving the Movie Theater; The Science of Filmology; Apparatus Theory.
  • The Aestheticization of the WorldA Long Conversation with Christian Metz; Leaving Theory; 6. The Melodramatic Imagination; The Brontë Sisters; The New Wave's Melodramatic Turn; Michel Foucault's Melodramatic Imagination; Barthes and Foucault; Barthes and Truffaut: Melodramatic Photography; Conclusion: From Barthes to Rancière?; Interview With Jacques Rancière; Nine Texts on the Cinema by Roland Barthes; Angels of Sin (Les Anges du péché, 1943); On CinemaScope; Versailles and its Accounts; Cinema Right and Left; On Left-​Wing Criticism; "Traumatic Units" in Cinema: Research Principles
  • Preface to Les Inconnus de la terre (Strangers of the Earth, Mario Ruspoli, 1961)Answer to a Question about James Bond; Sade-​Pasolini; Notes; Bibliography; Index