"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.
| ISBN: | 9780253159144 |
| Publication date: | 22nd December 1982 |
| Author: | Stephen Heath |
| Publisher: | Indiana University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 268 pages |
| Series: | Theories of Representation and Difference |
| Genres: |
Literary theory Social and cultural anthropology Films, cinema |