Breaking the Fourth Wall Direct Address in the Cinema

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Synopsis

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.

Book details

Author:
Tom Brown
ISBN:
9780748644261
Related ISBNs:
9780748644254
Publisher:
Edinburgh University Press
Pages:
208
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2018-09-18
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2012
Copyright by:
N/A 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Art and Architecture, Entertainment, Nonfiction