Roland Barthes' Cinema by Philip Watts (9780190277543)

Description - Roland Barthes' Cinema by Philip Watts

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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