Seeing Films Politically

by Mas'ud Zavarzadeh

In this bold political rethinking of contemporary film theory, Zavarzadeh overturns the dominant concepts that fetishize film as a work of art or simple entertainment. He demonstrates how aesthetic notions obscure the ideological effects produced by viewing films, particularly the production of the spectator as the subject of social class. Seeing films, he argues, is part of the political struggle over cultural intelligibilities, subjectivities, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791405273
• ISBN13: 9780791405277
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 267 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"