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Mindscreen: Bergman, Godard, and First-Person FilmAuthor: Bruce F. Kawin Scholarly Series September 2006 241 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 paperback, 1-56478-461-4 Retail Paperback Price: Our Paperback Price: $19.96 
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Book Description
In the opening chapter of this groundbreaking work, Bruce Kawin asks: can a film—which is already the dream of its maker and its audience, and which can present itself as the dream of one of its characters—appear, finally, to dream itself? Contrary to the classic assumption that all film narration is third person, the author contends that a movie can be narrated in first person through a consciousness that originates either on screen or off.
Through a discussion of Keaton, Welles, Resnais, Bergman, Godard, and even Chuck Jones, Kawin shows how the self-reflexivity of film stimulates the aesthetic, political, and psychological processes of the audience, making possible a greater knowledge and acceptance of ourselves.
About the Author
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Bruce Kawin is Professor of English and Film at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Born in Los Angeles in 1945, he earned a B.A. in English from Columbia, an M.F.A. in creative writing and filmmaking from Cornell, and a Ph.D. in modern literature and film, also from Cornell. He has written three books of narrative theory, three books on Faulkner, and two textbooks. He is also a poet and screenwriter. |