It looks at you
the returned gaze of cinema
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Author
Publication
1995 - State University of New York Press, Albany, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
59,500 words, Guess
Page Count
238 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1089264M
- ISBN-100791423395
- OCLC Control Number42854930
- OCLC Control Number30076071
- OCLC Control Numberitlooksatyouretu0000dixo
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number94013343
- LibraryThing342315
- Goodreads3309976
Classifications
- DDC302.23/43
- LCCPN1995.9.A8 D58 1995
Description
This book is a study of one of the most insidious and pervasive phenomena in the study and reception of cinema: the "returned gaze" from the screen in which the audience is actually surveilled by the film being projected on the screen. Rather than the usual process of watching a film, in those films which return the gaze of the viewer, the film looks at us, confronting our voyeur's embrace of the spectacle it presents. The book cites examples as diverse as Andy Warhol's Vinyl, Laurel and Hardy two-reel comedies, the films of Jean-Marie Straub, Jean-Luc Godard, Roberto Rossellini, and Wesley E. Barry's Creation of The Humanoids. It also discusses the history of the returned gaze in video, pornography, surveillance systems, and the related plastic arts.
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Series Statement
- The SUNY series in postmodern culture
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