Film Theory

An Introduction through the Senses. What is the relationship between cinema and spectator? This is the key question for film theory, and one that Thomas Elsaesser and Malte Hagener put at the center of their insightful and engaging book, now revised from its popular first edition. Every kind of cinema and every film theory first imagines an ideal spectator, and then maps certain dynamic interactions between the screen and the spectators mind, body and senses. Using seven distinctive configurations of spectator and screen that move progressively from exterior to interior relationships, the authors retrace the most