Viewing Positions: Ways of Seeing Film

Book Overview

The essays in this volume represent some of the best new thinking about the crucial relations between visual representation in film and human subjectivity. No amount of empirical research into the sociology of actual audiences will displace the desire to speculate about the effects of visual culture, and especially moving images, on viewing subjects. These notions of spectatorship, however hypothetical, become extremely compelling metaphors for the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813521335
• ISBN13: 9780813521336
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"