Description: Film And Cinema Spectatorship : Melodrama And Mimesis, Paperback by Campbell, Jan, ISBN 074562930X, ISBN-13 9780745629308, Brand New, Free shipping in the US This book explores film theory and spectatorship through the concept of phenomenological mimesis, emphasizing a phenomenological reading of psychoanalysis and unconscious experience where there is no division between the imaginary and the real. It contends that film spectatorship is an imaginary hysterical identification and a social, creative dreaming with which people reconstruct experience. It addresses film within the context of psychoanalysis and a mimesis that moves between hysteria and social memory/mourning. It rejects the idea that equates early cinema with the pre-Oedipal and classical cinema with Oedipal narrative and argues for film spectatorship as disembodiment and embodiment, showing that Oedipal sexuality cannot explain how people move from a hysterical identification with the film text to a more social dreaming. It follows a chronology of film theory and spectatorship, rather than a linear film history, and discusses the debates on feminist film theory and sexual difference in the 1970s in relation to Mildred Pierce, Weimar cinema, and Boys Don't Cry; the phenomenological spectator within debates of early film and modernity, including the debate between perception, cinema, psychoanalysis, and neuroscience in the late 19th century, early film spectatorship, and the theories of Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer, Béla Balázs, and André Bazin; and more contemporary debates on film spectatorship in relation to experience, memory, and time, including approaches of cultural studies, contemporary debates on film in relation to stars, fandom, and melodrama, and the aesthetics of film in the context of melodrama and cultural and social re-memory. Distributed by Wiley. Annotation ©2020 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR ()
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Book Title: Film And Cinema Spectatorship : Melodrama And Mimesis
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Name: Film and Cinema Spectatorship : Melodrama and Mimesis
Language: English
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication Year: 2005
Subject: Film / General, Film / History & Criticism
Item Height: 0.9 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 14.7 Oz
Author: Jan Campbell
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Performing Arts
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
