Spectatorship and Film Theory

The Wayward Spectator

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de Carlo Comanducci

Type

Essays

Sujet

Theory

Mots Clés

theory, viewer

Année d'édition

2018

Editeur

Palgrave MacMillan

Langue

anglais

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Format

Hardcover • 215 pages
6 ¼ x 8 ½ inches (16 x 21.5 cm)

ISBN

978-3-319-96742-4

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Description de l'ouvrage:
This book interrogates the relation between film spectatorship and film theory in order to criticise some of the disciplinary and authoritarian assumptions of 1970s apparatus theory, without dismissing its core political concerns. Theory, in this perspective, should not be seen as a practice distinct from spectatorship but rather as an integral aspect of the spectator’s gaze. Combining Jacques Rancière’s emancipated spectator with Judith Butler’s queer theory of subjectivity, Spectatorship and Film Theory foregrounds the contingent, embodied and dialogic aspects of our experience of film. Erratic and always a step beyond the grasp of disciplinary discourse, this singular work rejects the notion of the spectator as a fixed position, and instead presents it as a field of tensions―a “wayward” history of encounters.

À propos de l'auteur :
Carlo Comanducci teaches at Vistula University, Warsaw, Poland. He writes on cinema and spectatorship, psychoanalytic theory, anarchy and the politics of aesthetics.

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