Reflexivity in Film and Literature: from Don Quixote to Jean-Luc Godard

Title

Reflexivity in Film and Literature: from Don Quixote to Jean-Luc Godard

Subject

reflextivity, creating illusion, film and literature, fictional constructs

Description

The 'reflexive tradition' in film and literature calls attention to fictional constructs, such as when realist narrative is interrupted to point to the mechanisms in the art. Protagonists step out of character to address the reader, for example, or the camera draws back to show a microphone in front of an actor's face.

Creator

Robert Stam

Source

1985

Publisher

Columbia University Press New York

Date

1993

Contributor

Used topics to discuss:
novelists Cervantes, Fielding and Nabokov
playwrights Jarry and Brecht
filmmakers such as Hitchcock, Bunuel, Fellini, Godard, Wenders, and Woody Allen
films, including Rear Window, Sunset Boulevard, Lilita, Day for Night, and The French Lieutenant's Woman.

Format

285 pages

Language

English

Type

"A valuable contribution to interdisciplinary approaches to cultural studies..." - Caren Kaplan, Georgetown University

Identifier

WCBK0105

Collection

Citation

Robert Stam, “Reflexivity in Film and Literature: from Don Quixote to Jean-Luc Godard,” WPB, accessed February 5, 2025, https://tpb.worm.org/items/show/12976.

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