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Film and Cinema Spectatorship: Melodrama and Mimesis

ISBN: 978-0-7456-2929-2
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256 pages
January 2005, Polity
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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.

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