Roland Barthes'' Cinema

Zusatztext [A] thoughtful book Watts approach uncovers unexpected riches in what have seemed to be minor moments in Barthes work. The book has chapters on film and myth, on film and perception, on Barthes and Bazin, on film and utopian politics, on film theory, on melodrama Roland Barthes Cinema also includes new translations (by Deborah Glassman) of nine of Barthes less well-known articles on film. s Informationen zum Autor Philip Watts was Professor of French at Columbia University and Chair of the department from 2008 to 2012. A specialist of twentieth-century French literature and film, he is the author of Allegories of the Purge: How Literature Responded to the Postwar Trials of Writers and Intellectuals in France and co-editor of Jacques Rancière: History, Politics, Aesthetics. Klappentext Roland Barthes' Cinema offers the first systematic English-language critical treatment of Barthes' writing on cinema, reassessing the relevance of his work for a new generation of readers and filmgoers. Zusammenfassung Roland Barthes' Cinema offers the first systematic English-language critical treatment of Barthes' writing on cinema, reassessing the relevance of his work for a new generation of readers and filmgoers.

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• Authors: Philip Watts
• Assisted by: Dudley Andrew (Editor), Andrew Dudley (Editor), Yves Citton (Editor), Citton Yves (Editor), Vincent Debaene (Editor), Debaene Vincent (Editor), Sam Di Iorio (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.06.2016
• EAN: 9780190277543
• ISBN: 978-0-19-027754-3
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism