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Breaking the Fourth Wall: Direct Address in the Cinema
Tom Brown
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Description for Breaking the Fourth Wall: Direct Address in the Cinema
Paperback. Film characters are not supposed to look at the camera, so what happens when they do acknowledge our presence as spectators? This book revaluates these and other fundamental assumptions about the medium by demonstrating that direct address is compatible with - and is in some cases a convention of - various traditions of filmmaking. Num Pages: 188 pages, 31 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 336.
This book examines the role of direct address within fiction cinema. Film characters are not supposed to look at the camera, so what happens when they do acknowledge our presence as spectators? It is often assumed that this is incompatible with the voyeurism and the presence - absence that defines the cinema experience and disrupts our involvement in the fiction. This book revaluates these and other fundamental assumptions about the medium by demonstrating that direct address is compatible with - and is in some cases a convention of - various traditions of filmmaking. Breaking the Fourth Wall is the first ... Read more
This book examines the role of direct address within fiction cinema. Film characters are not supposed to look at the camera, so what happens when they do acknowledge our presence as spectators? It is often assumed that this is incompatible with the voyeurism and the presence - absence that defines the cinema experience and disrupts our involvement in the fiction. This book revaluates these and other fundamental assumptions about the medium by demonstrating that direct address is compatible with - and is in some cases a convention of - various traditions of filmmaking. Breaking the Fourth Wall is the first ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
188
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
188
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748683079
SKU
V9780748683079
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About Tom Brown
Tom Brown is a lecturer in Film, with a research focus on the 'classical' cinema of France and Hollywood. Has co-edited two collections (Film Moments: Critical Methods and Approaches for Palgrave and Film and Television after DVD for Routledge) as well as publishing several book chapter and journal articles.
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