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Film characters are not supposed to look at the camera, so what happens when they do acknowledge our presence as spectators? This book revaluates these and other fundamental assumptions about the medium by demonstrating that direct address is compatible with - and is in some cases a convention of - various traditions of filmmaking.

Table of Contents
1. Introduction: direct address in film history, theory and criticism; 2. Counter-looks: direct address and counter-cinema; 3. Looks of invitation: comedic and musical direct address; 4. Le Notti di Cabiria (1957); 5. High Fidelity (2000); 6. La Ronde (1950); 7. Conclusion.

Breaking the Fourth Wall

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      Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
      Publication Date: 30/08/2013
      ISBN13: 9780748683079, 978-0748683079
      ISBN10: 0748683070
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Film characters are not supposed to look at the camera, so what happens when they do acknowledge our presence as spectators? This book revaluates these and other fundamental assumptions about the medium by demonstrating that direct address is compatible with - and is in some cases a convention of - various traditions of filmmaking.

      Table of Contents
      1. Introduction: direct address in film history, theory and criticism; 2. Counter-looks: direct address and counter-cinema; 3. Looks of invitation: comedic and musical direct address; 4. Le Notti di Cabiria (1957); 5. High Fidelity (2000); 6. La Ronde (1950); 7. Conclusion.

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