Reflexivity in Film and Literature

UMI Research Press

1985

xiv, 285 p.

Studies in cinema ; 31

Includes index. Bibliography: p. [277]-280.

9780835716079

1. Allegories of spectatorship. The complicity of the spectator -- Realism and the desiring spectator -- Film and dreams : Sherlock, Jr. -- Fiction and voyeurism -- A paradigmatic instance : Hitchcock's Rear Window -- Rear Window : the critique of voyeurism -- The shattering of distance -- Voyeurism and point-of-view -- Voyeurism and neighborliness -- Godard's erotic sabotage -- A Married Woman and Masculine, Feminine -- Feminist pornography -- Numero Deux and Every Man for Himself -- Obscure objects of desire -- 2. The process of production. Art and the culture industry : Balzac's Lost Illusions -- Hollywood on Hollywood : the silent period -- Film and productive labor : the man with the movie camera -- Hollywood reflexivity : the sound film -- Sunset Boulevard -- The musical and self-flaunting artifice -- Reflexivity and animation -- Auteurism and its discontents -- Fellini and 8 1/2 -- The new Hollywood : Peter Bogdanovich and Targets -- New German reflexivity : Beware of a Holy Whore -- Truffaut and Day for Night -- Filmmaking in the third world -- Andrzej Wajda and Man of Marble -- Declining stars : Fedora and Veronika Voss -- Into the eighties : Godard and Wenders -- 3. The genre of self-consciousness. The cameo appearance : from Cervantes to Woody Allen -- The self-conscious genre : summa, anatomy, carnival -- The centrality of parody -- The Quixotic theme -- The narrative strategies of reflexivity -- Story and discourse -- Tempo in film and novel -- Titles and intertitles -- The dialogue of author/reader/spectator -- The self-correcting style -- The indeterminate text -- The incorporation of criticism -- Reflexive adaptations : Tom Jones, Lolita, The French Lieutenant's Woman -- The multiplicity of styles -- 4. The carnival of modernism. A seminal instance : Ubu Roi -- Ubu's grandchild : the modernism of Jean-Luc Godard -- Godard and avant-garde theatre -- Carnival and the apocalypse -- The Exterminating Angel -- Ubu and Les Carabiniers -- Les Carabiniers : the war film intertext -- Carnival and Latin American culture -- Brazilian modernism and the cannibalist metaphor -- Mario de Andrade and the carnivalization of language -- Macunaima : from novel to film -- The politics of carnival -- 5. The pleasures of subversion. The lessons of Brecht -- The lessons applied : Tout Va Bien -- The politics of technique -- Further applications : Numero Deux -- The video subversion of language : split writing/split screen -- Realism, reflexivity, sexuality : Sauve Qui Peut/(la Vie) -- The politics of pleasure : Jonah Who Will be 25 in the Year 2000 -- Beyond deconstruction.

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