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Breaking the Frame

Breaking the Frame

Hedges, Inez

Paperback

Film Studies

ISBN10: 0253206219
ISBN13: 9780253206213
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: Mar 22 1991
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.03 Depth: 9.24
Language: English

Ranging over the broad spectrum of contemporary literary and film theory, Breaking the Frame explores the different approaches to cinematic art that are offered by cognitive psychology, feminist theory, aesthetics, and psychoanalysis. In this study Inez Hedges looks closely at films that challenge accepted norms in both form and content. The films discussed here, including Zazie, La Nuit de Varennes, and Interiors, break out of conventional frames, upsetting our expectations about how films should look (the film frame) as well as how experience is usually organized by cinematic works of art (the psychological or cognitive frame). Hedges focuses on two primary areas: the way that the structure of film texts guides the interpretations of the spectator (hermeneutics) and the way that films reflect social models (representation).

Breaking the Frame will be of interest not only to scholars and students of film and literature but also to today's filmliterate public who enjoy exploring the theoretical and philosophical implications of cinematic works.

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