Film and Cinema Spectatorship: Melodrama and MimesisISBN: 978-0-7456-2929-2
Hardcover
256 pages
January 2005, Polity
Other Available Formats: Paperback
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List of Illustrations.
Acknowledgements.
Introduction.
PART I: SEXUAL DIFFERENCE, FILM SPECTATORSHIP AND THE TEXT.
Introduction to Part I.
1. Sexual Difference, Melodrama and Film Theory.
2. The Sexual-Difference Spectator in Weimar Cinema.
3. Film Theory and the Visual Body.
PART II: THE EARLY FILM SPECTATOR.
Introduction to Part II.
4. Perception and Early Film.
5. Early Film Spectatorship.
PART III: AUDIENCES, STARS AND AESTHETICS.
Introduction to Part III.
6. Cultural Studies, Ethnography and the ‘Real’ Film Spectator.
7. Stars and Melodrama.
8. Film Aesthetics and Cultural Re-Memory.
Notes.
Index.