Breaking the Fourth Wall : : Direct Address in the Cinema / / Tom Brown.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Brown, Tom,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.) :; 20 B/W illustrations

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748644261','ISBN:9780748644254']);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."

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- 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