Spectatorship and Film Theory The Wayward Spectator /

• Main Author: Comanducci, Carlo (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Motion pictures.; Aesthetics.; Film Theory.

This book interrogates the relation between film spectatorship and film theory in order to criticise some of the disciplinary and authoritarian assumptions of 1970s apparatus theory, without dismissing its core political concerns. Theory, in this perspective, should not be seen as a practice distinc...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Film theory, a divided passion?
• 2. The heteronomy of subjectivity and the spectator's emancipation
• 3. Everyday film theory
• 4. Situatedness and contingency of film experience
• 5. The process of free association and film as an evocative object
• 6. The indeterminacy of embodiment
• 7. The spectator as a history of encounters.