Breaking the fourth wall : direct address in the cinema / Tom Brown.

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Brown, Tom, 1978-

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780748644261
0748644261

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

791.436 23

LOC classification:

PN1995.9.D49

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Contents:

Counter-looks: direct address and counter-cinema -- Looks of invitation: comedic and musical direct address -- La notti di Cabiria (1957) -- High fidelity (2000) -- La ronde (1950).

Summary: What happens when fictional characters acknowledge our 'presence' as film spectators? By virtue of its eccentricity and surprising frequency as a filmic device, direct address enables us to ask some fundamental questions of film theory, history and criticism and tackle, head-on, assumptions about the cinema as a medium. Brown provides a broad understanding of the role of direct address within fiction cinema, with focused analysis of its role in certain strands of avant-garde or experimental cinema, on the one hand, and popular genre traditions (musicals and comedies) on the other.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Counter-looks: direct address and counter-cinema -- Looks of invitation: comedic and musical direct address -- La notti di Cabiria (1957) -- High fidelity (2000) -- La ronde (1950).

What happens when fictional characters acknowledge our 'presence' as film spectators? By virtue of its eccentricity and surprising frequency as a filmic device, direct address enables us to ask some fundamental questions of film theory, history and criticism and tackle, head-on, assumptions about the cinema as a medium. Brown provides a broad understanding of the role of direct address within fiction cinema, with focused analysis of its role in certain strands of avant-garde or experimental cinema, on the one hand, and popular genre traditions (musicals and comedies) on the other.

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