REFLEXIVITY IN FILM AND CULTURE by Robert Stam ( 9780231079457 )

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REFLEXIVITY IN FILM AND CULTURE
FROM DON QUIXOTE TO JEAN-LUC GODARD

By:

Robert Stam

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0231079451

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COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 August, 1964

Pages:

288

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Reflexivity refers to those moments in fiction when the work suddenly calls attention to itself as a fictional construct. This study explores reflexivity from different viewpoints, reviewing the rise of modernism and the production process in such films as "Rear Window" and "Tom Jones".

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Reflexivity refers to those moments in fiction and film when the work suddenly calls attention to itself as a fictional construct. For example, in literature a character might suddenly step out of the story and address the reader. This study of reflexivity in film and literature pays special attention to "Don Quixote", one of the first such examples of reflexivity in the novel, and to Jean-Luc Godard and the nouvelle vague in cinema, where self-reflection prevailed. It examines the rise of modernism, the complicity of the reader-spectator in creating illusion and the production process in film. The discussion of film includes "Rear Window", "Tom Jones" and "The French Lieutenant's Woman".

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