[ecrea] New in PB: The Use of Direct Address in Cinema

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 and if you would like any more information about the book, please 
feel free to get in touch with us at Edinburgh University Press at 
(marketing /at/ eup.ed.ac.uk).



Emma Rees

Marketing Executive



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(marketing /at/ eup.ed.ac.uk)

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