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Roland Barthes’ Cinema [PDF ebook]

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The most famous name in French literary circles from the late 1950s till his death in 1981, Roland Barthes maintained a contradictory rapport with the cinema. As a cultural critic, he warned of its surreptitious ability to lead the enthralled spectator toward an acceptance of a pre-given world. As a leftist, he understood that spectacle could be turned against itself and provoke deep questioning of that pre-given world. And as an extraordinarily sensitive human being, he relished the beauty of images and the community they could bring together.

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 224 ● ISBN 9780190277567 ● Editor Dudley Andrew & Yves Citton ● Publisher Oxford University Press ● Published 2016 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 5279127 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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