Breaking the Fourth Wall: Direct Address in the Cinema
Tom Brown
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.
Thể loại:
Năm:
2012
In lần thứ:
1
Nhà xuát bản:
Edinburgh University Press
Ngôn ngữ:
english
Trang:
208
ISBN 10:
0748644253
ISBN 13:
9780748644254
File:
PDF, 1.95 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2012