Titlebook: Questions of Cinema; Stephen Heath Textbook 1981Latest edition Stephen Heath 1981 arts.cinema.performing arts

commodity

Film Performance, the Baron d’Ormesan, tells how he and a group of friends founded the Cinematographic International Company —‘which for short we called the CIC’! — and sought to obtain films ‘of great interest’ for exhibition in the principal towns of Europe and America. A number of such films were procured but the

Orchiectomy

Film, System, Narrative,ment (if merely by virtue of the inevitable shifting of codes into action), a film — any film — goes along with the cinema that it continually and simultaneously recasts. If ‘the study of a singular filmic system is never the study of cinematic specificity’ (and this is the very reason of ., Metz’s

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Pruritus

Body, Voice,as perverse activity; on the other, the ordinary hearer or listener, the simple unproblematic activity of listening. Typically, and influentially, Freud, in the . has a fair amount to say on scopophilia — pleasure in seeing — and voyeurism, nothing on whatever the equivalent would be for pleasure an

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The Cinematic Apparatus, of the machine, the apparatus. The Grand Café programme is headed with the announcement of ‘Le Cinématographe’ and continues with its description: ‘this apparatus, invented by MM. Auguste and Louis Lumière, permits the recording, by series of photographs, of all the movements which have succeeded o

Bereavement

metropolitan

On Screen, in Frame: Film and Ideology,and Café), the screen is fixed in what will come to be its definitive place. The spectators are no longer set on either side of a translucent screen but have been assigned their position in front of the image which unrolls before them — . begins.

虚弱的神经

Repetition Time,cess of production of images, sounds, times, meanings, the transformations effected on the basis of the specific properties of film in the relation of a viewing and listening situation. It is that situation which is, finally, the point of ‘structural/materialist film’, its fundamental operation, the . of film, and the experience ..