"It is essential reading for anyone concerned with the theoretical discussion of cinema, and ideology in general." -Semiotica
" . . . Heath is an antidote to the Cinema 101 worldview." -Voice Literary Supplement
Heath's study of film draws on Lacanian psychoanalysis, semiotics, and Marxism, presenting film as a signifying practice and the cinema as a social institution of meanings.
- ISBN10 0333261224
- ISBN13 9780333261224
- Publish Date August 1981
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 February 1993
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 200
- Language English