It Looks at You - The Returned Gaze of Cinema

This is a study of the "returned gaze" from the cinema screen, demonstrating that the films that we watch watch us, guide us, control our gaze, and enforce societal codes.

About the author

Wheeler Winston Dixon is the James Ryan Endowed Professor of Film Studies, coeditor in chief of Quarterly Review of Film and Video, and chairperson of the Film Studies Program at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. His many books include The Second Century of Cinema: The Past and Future of the Moving Image; The Films of Jean-Luc Godard; and The Transparency of Spectacle: Meditations on the Moving Image, all published by SUNY Press; and Collected Interviews: Voices from Twentieth-Century Cinema.

Product details

• Authors: Wheeler Winston Dixon
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.12.1994
• EAN: 9780791423400
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-2340-0
• No. of pages: 238
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 228 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 340 g
• Series: Suny Series, Postmodern Cultur; Suny Postmodern Culture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet