This work of film criticism by Kawin (English and film, U. of Colorado at Boulder) was an attempt to work out previously unaddressed issues of narrative consciousness and reflexivity in film.
The argument is that just as filmmakers have managed to signify the subjectivity of a what a character says through the voice over or what character sees through subjective focus and imitative
angle of vision, so they have found means to signify the subjectivity of what a character thinks, a technique he calls ＂mindscreen＂ to distinguish it from presentation of the images in a
character’s physical eye. A broad range of films, in particular those of Ingmar Bergman and Jean-Luc Godard, are examined in order to workout the implications of the technique of mindscreen.
This is a paperbound edition of a work first published in 1978. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
