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Screening the Face

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  • © 2012

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  1. Paul Coates

    1. University of Western Ontario, Canada

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    • Paul Coates
    Pages 1-23

  3. Faces and ‘Faciality’

    • Paul Coates
    Pages 24-55

  4. The Fate of Contemplation: Closeness and Distance

    • Paul Coates
    Pages 56-88

  5. Masks and Metaphor: Doubles and Animals

    • Paul Coates
    Pages 89-132

  6. Invisibility, Medusa and the Mask

    • Paul Coates
    Pages 133-157

  7. Dissonance and Synthesis: Persona, the Face, the Mask and the Thing

    • Paul Coates
    Pages 158-181

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 182-195
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About this book

Coates presents the face in film as a place where transformations begin, reflecting both the experience of modernity and such influential myths as that of Medusa. This is exemplified by a wide range of European and American films, including Ingmar Bergman's Persona .

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'Sharing Barthes' and Bergman's premise that the human face remains central to cinematic art, Coates' new book draws on film theory, philosophy, art history, and cultural studies to produce fresh, startling insights on the films that truly matter. The range of examples is as impressive as the erudition.' - Lloyd Michaels, Allegheny College, USA

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Western Ontario, Canada

    Paul Coates

About the author

PAUL COATES Professor in Film Studies at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. He has taught at McGill and the University of Aberdeen. His publications include The Story of the Lost Reflection (1985), The Gorgon's Gaze (1991), Cinema, Religion and the Romantic Legacy (2003), The Red and the White: The Cinema of People's Poland (2005) and Cinema and Colour (2010).

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