Breaking the fourth wall : direct address in the cinema / Tom Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Tom.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--History.

Motion pictures.

Dialogue in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What happens when fictional characters acknowledge our 'presence' as film spectators? By virtue of its eccentricity and surprising frequency as a filmic device, direct address enables us to ask some fundamental questions of film theory, history and criticism and tackle, head-on, assumptions about the cinema as a medium. Brown provides a broad understanding of the role of direct address within fiction cinema, with focused analysis of its role in certain strands of avant-garde or experimental cinema, on the one hand, and popular genre traditions (musicals and comedies) on the other.

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of figures; Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction: direct address in film history, theory and criticism; Chapter 2 Counter-looks: direct address and counter-cinema; Chapter 3 Looks of invitation: comedic and musical direct address; Chapter 4 Le Notti di Cabiria (1957); Chapter 5 High Fidelity (2000); Chapter 6 La Ronde (1950); Chapter 7 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-87483-X

9786613716149

0-7486-4426-1

OCLC:

798613047