Reflexivity in Film and Literature: From Don Quixote to Jean-Luc Godard

by Robert Stam

Reflexivity refers to those moments in fiction and film when the work suddenly calls attention to itself as a fictional construct. For example, in literature a character might suddenly step out of the story and address the reader.

Genres: Film, Theory

288 pages, Paperback

First published August 27, 1992

About the author

Robert Stam (born October 29, 1941) is an American film theorist working on film semiotics. He is a professor at New York University, where he teaches about French New Wave filmmakers. Stam has published widely on French literature, comparative literature, and on film topics such as film history and film theory. Together with Ella Shohat, he co-authored Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media .

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kinda fire. read hysterically in two hours for a final paper