Cinema and Spectatorship

by Judith Mayne

Book Overview

Cinema and Spectatorship is the first book to focus entirely on the history and role of the spectator in contemporary film studies. While 1970s film theory insisted on a distinction betweeen the cinematic subject and film-goers, Judith Mayne suggests that a very real friction between "subjects" and "viewers" is in fact central to the study of spectatorship.
In the book's first section Mayne examines three theoretical models of spectatorship: the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415034167
• ISBN13: 9780415034166
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.4"