Libro Spectatorship and Film Theory: The Wayward Spectator De Carlo Comanducci

portada Spectatorship and Film Theory: The Wayward Spectator

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Palgrave Macmillan

Autor

Carlo Comanducci

Año

2018

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

208

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9783319967424

N° edición

Categorías

Cine

Spectatorship and Film Theory: The Wayward Spectator

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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 Ranciere'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.