Roland Barthes' Cinema

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Roland Barthes' Cinema is written by Philip Watts and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0190614056 (ISBN 10) and 9780190614058 (ISBN 13).

The most famous name in French literary circles from the late 1950s till his death in 1981, Roland Barthes maintained a contradictory rapport with the cinema. As a cultural critic, he warned of its surreptitious ability to lead the enthralled spectator toward an acceptance of a pre-given world. As a leftist, he understood that spectacle could be turned against itself and provoke deep questioning of that pre-given world. And as an extraordinarily sensitive human being, he relished the beauty of images and the community they could bring together.