Spectatorship and Film Theory
Subtitle: The Wayward Spectator
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Aug 28, 2018
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9783319967424
Description: 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 distinct from spectatorship but rather as an integral aspect of the spectator's gaze. Combining Jacques Rancière's emancipated spectator with Judith's queer theory of subjectivity, Spectatorship and Film Theory foregrounds the contingent, embodied and dialogic aspects of our experience of film. Erratic and always a step beyond the grasp of disciplinary discourse, this singular work rejects the notion of the spectator as a fixed position, and instead presents it as a field of tensions, a wayward history of encounters.
Notes: Source title: Spectatorship and Film Theory: The Wayward Spectator