Bigger Than Life: The Close-Up and Scale in the Cinema

✍ Scribed by Mary Ann Doane

Publisher: Duke University Press
Year: 2021
Tongue: English
Leaves: 364
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Mary Ann Doane examines how the scalar operations of cinema, especially those of the close-up, disturb and reconfigure the spectator's sense of place, space, and orientation.

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