Narrative, Apparatus, Ideology: A Film Theory Reader

by Philip Rosen

Book Overview

Smartly selected and organized, the essays in this anthology introduce several central issues in film theory, namely, the classical narrative text, oppositional and avant-garde cinema, subject positioning, the cinematic apparatus, and ideology. Written by seminal scholars, including Christian Metz, Jean-Louis Baudry, Stephen Heath, Peter Wollen, Laura Mulvey, and No l Burch, as well as such leading thinkers as Roland Barthes, Julia Kristeva, and Jean-Fran...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231058810
• ISBN13: 9780231058810
• Release Date: October 1986
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 564 Pages
• Weight: 1.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher