Point of View in the Cinema

by Edward R. Branigan

Branigan effectively criticizes the communication model of narration, a task long overdue in Anglo-American circles. The book brings out the extent to which mainstream mimetic theories have relied upon the elastic notion of an invisible, idealized observer, a convenient spook whom critics can summon up whenever they desire to "naturalize" style. The book also makes distinctions among types of subjectivity; after this, we will have much more precise...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027930791
• ISBN13: 9789027930798
• Release Date: December 1984
• Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary