The Face on the Screen : Questions of Death, Recognition and Public Memory.

The Face on the Screen : Questions of Death, Recognition and Public Memory.

There was a time is screen culture when the facial close-up was a spectacular and mysterious image ... The constant bombardment of the super-enlarged, computer-enhanced faces of advertising, the endless 'talking heads' of television and the ever-changing array of film stars' faces hav...

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Main Author: Davis, Therese
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol : Intellect, 2003.
Subjects:
Face (Philosophy)
Face in motion pictures.
Face in motion pictures
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Summary:There was a time is screen culture when the facial close-up was a spectacular and mysterious image ... The constant bombardment of the super-enlarged, computer-enhanced faces of advertising, the endless 'talking heads' of television and the ever-changing array of film stars' faces have reduced the face to a banal image, while the dream of early film theorists that the 'giant severed heads' of the screen could reveal 'the soul of man' to the masses is long since dead. And yet the end of this dream opens up the possibility for a different view of the face on the screen. The aim of the book is to se.
Physical Description:1 online resource (130 pages)
ISBN:9781841509013
1841509019
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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