| It Looks at You: The Returned Gaze of Cinema Contributor(s): Dixon, Wheeler Winston (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791423409 ISBN-13: 9780791423400 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1994 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Media Studies - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - Social Science | Popular Culture |
| Dewey: 302.234 |
| LCCN: 94013343 |
| Series: Suny Postmodern Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.95" W x 8.99" (0.75 lbs) 238 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book is a study of one of the most insidious and pervasive phenomena in the study and reception of cinema: the returned gaze from the screen, in which the audience is actually surveilled by the film being projected on the screen. Rather than the usual process of watching a film, in those films which return the gaze of the viewer, the film looks at us, confronting our voyeur's embrace of the spectacle it presents. The book cites examples as diverse as Andy Warhol's Vinyl, Laurel and Hardy two-reel comedies, the films of Jean-Marie Straub, Jean-Luc Godard, Roberto Rossellini, and Wesley E. Barry's Creation of the Humanoids. It also discusses the history of the returned gaze in video, pornography, surveillance systems, and the related plastic arts. |