Spectatorship and Film Theory: The Wayward Spectator

Comanducci, Carlo

ISBN 10: 3030072401 / ISBN 13: 9783030072407

Edité par Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

2019. Paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. N° de réf. du vendeur V9783030072407

Synopsis :

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.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Spectatorship and Film Theory: The Wayward ...
Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Date d'édition : 2019
Reliure : Couverture souple
Etat : New