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Emma Rees <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 27 Feb 2014 06:45:54 -0600
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INTRODUCING 'BREAKING THE FOURTH WALL' IN PAPERBACK

Film characters are not supposed to look at the camera, so what happens when they do acknowledge our ‘presence’ as spectators? It is often assumed that this is incompatible with the ‘voyeurism’ and the ‘presence-absence’ that defines the cinema experience and disrupts our involvement in the fiction – but Tom Brown, author and lecturer at King’s College London, successfully flips this assumption on its head.

Now available in paperback, 'Breaking the Fourth Wall' is the first book to provide a broad understanding of the role of direct address within fiction cinema. Featuring a range of case studies including: Laurel and Hardy’s Sons of the Desert (1933); Annie Hall (1977); The Devil’s Advocate (1997); Wayne’s World (1992); The Ides of March (2011); and many more, Tom Brown demonstrates that direct address is compatible with – and is in some cases a convention of – various traditions of filmmaking.

Find out more about direct address by reading the 'Screens and Stages' blog http://fttreading.wordpress.com/2012/05/31/breaking-the-fourth-wall-direct-address-in-the-cinema-4/

If you'd like any more information about the book, please feel free to get in touch with us at Edinburgh University Press at [log in to unmask]

Thanks,

Emma

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