Screen theory
Screen theory is a Marxist-psychoanalytic film theory associated with the British journal Screen in the 1970s.[1]
Overview
The theoreticians of the "screen theory" approach — Colin MacCabe, Stephen Heath and Laura Mulvey — describe the "cinematic apparatus" as a version of Althusser's Ideological State Apparatus (ISA). According to screen theory, it is the spectacle that creates the spectator and not the other way round. The fact that the subject is created and subjected at the same time by the narrative on screen is masked by the apparent realism of the communicated content.
Screen theory origin's can be traced to the essay's "Mirror Stage" by Lacan and Miller's "Suture: Elements of the Logic of the Signifier".[2]
See also
References
- ↑ Miklitsch, Robert (2006). Roll over Adorno : critical theory, popular culture, audiovisual media. Albany: SUNY. p. 69. ISBN 9781423780380. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
- ↑ McGowan, Todd (2015). Psychoanalytic Film Theory and The Rules of the Game. New York: Bloomsbury Academic. p. 57. ISBN 9781628920857. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
Further reading
- Heath, Stephen (1981): Questions of Cinema. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
- MacCabe, Colin (1985): Theoretical Essays: Film, Linguistics, Literature. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
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