Roland Barthes' Cinema

by Philip Watts

Book Overview

The most famous name in French literary circles from the late 1950s till his death in 1981, Roland Barthes maintained a contradictory rapport with the cinema. As a cultural critic, he warned of its surreptitious ability to lead the enthralled spectator toward an acceptance of a pre-given world. As a leftist, he understood that spectacle could be turned against itself and provoke deep questioning of that pre-given world. And as an extraordinarily sensitive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190277556
• ISBN13: 9780190277550
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.1"