The Text-in-the-Spectator: The Role of Phenomenology in an Eclectic Theoretical Methodology.

Tomasulo, Frank P.

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Publication Date: 1988

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The Text-in-the-Spectator: The Role of Phenomenology in an Eclectic Theoretical Methodology.

Tomasulo, Frank P.

Journal of Film and Video, v40 n2 p20-32 Spr 1988

Reexamines the basic tenets and assesses the use-value of phenomenology as a methodology of film study. Suggests that phenomenology can assist in restoring a proper role for the spectator in the creation of meaning, as part of a dialectical human sensuous activity. (MS)

Descriptors: Audiences, Film Study, Marxism, Methods, Phenomenology, Psychiatry, Semiotics

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Language: English

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