APPENDIX I GLOSSARY OF KEY TERMS
acousmêtre: a figure within the storyworld who is heard but not seen. This position retains a special power within most narratives, but can be rendered vulnerable when voice and body are realigned.
anti-humanism: a position adopted by several post-war French theorists that questions or rejects the assumptions of Western philosophy, especially the sovereignty of the human subject as a rational, self-determining agent.
apparatus theory: a distinction adopted by critics of cinema’s ideological function; cinema is considered an ideological apparatus based on its methods of representation and the spectatorial position it provides.
attraction: concept developed by Sergei Eisenstein; derived from popular entertainment ...
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