Breaking the Fourth Wall : : Direct Address in the Cinema / / Tom Brown.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Brown, Tom,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.) :; 20 B/W illustrations
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; List of figures --; Preface --; Chapter 1 Introduction: direct address in film history, theory and criticism --; Chapter 2 Counter-looks: direct address and counter-cinema --; Chapter 3 Looks of invitation: comedic and musical direct address --; Chapter 4 Le Notti di Cabiria (1957) --; Chapter 5 High Fidelity (2000) --; Chapter 6 La Ronde (1950) --; Chapter 7 Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780748644261; 9783110780468
• DOI: 10.1515/9780748644261
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Tom Brown.

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748644261','ISBN:9780748644254']);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."