Questions of Cinema: Essays in Film Theory (Communications and Culture)

Front Matter....Pages i-viii On Screen, in Frame: Film and Ideology....Pages 1-18 Narrative Space....Pages 19-75 On Suture....Pages 76-112 Film Performance....Pages 113-130 Film, System, Narrative....Pages 131-144 The Question Oshima....Pages 145-164 Repetition Time....Pages 165-175 Body, Voice....Pages 176-193 Language, Sight and Sound....Pages 194-220 The Cinematic Apparatus....Pages 221-235 Contexts....Pages 236-245 Back Matter....Pages 247-257 "It is essential reading for anyone concerned with the theoretical discussion of cinema, and ideology in general."--Semiotica .". Heath is an antidote to the Cinema 101 worldview."--Voice Literary Supplement Heath's study of film draws on Lacanian psychoanalysis, semiotics, and Marxism, presenting film as a signifying practice and the cinema as a social institution of meanings