num_pages: 200
description: "... will add much to the repertoire of film scholarship... " —Choice This film theory classic brings semiotics and psychoanalytic concepts to bear on the film experience, to answer questions such In what way does film address its spectator? How does the film prefigure the spectator? Is the film aware of its orientation towards its spectator? And to what extent does it posit itself as the spectator’s lead?
language: English
title: Inside the Gaze: The Fiction Film and Its Spectator
titlecomplete: Inside the Gaze: The Fiction Film and Its Spectator (The Society for Cinema Studies Translation Series)
genres: Philosophy
ratings_count: 16
publisher: Indiana University Press