Screening the Face

by Paul Coates

Acknowledgements Introduction Faces and 'Faciality' The Fate of Closeness and Distance Masks and Doubles and Animals Invisibility, Medusa, and the Mask Dissonance and Persona, the Face, the Mask and the Thing Works Cited Index

204 pages, Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 2012

About the author

Paul Coates is a professor emeritus of film studies at Western University, Ontario. Previously, he taught at Georgia, McGill, and Aberdeen, and his books include The Story of the Lost Reflection (1985), The Gorgon’s Gaze (1991), Lucid Dreams: The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieślowski (ed., 1999), Cinema and Colour (2010), Screening the Face (2012), and Comparative Cinema: Late and Last Things in Literature and Film (2021).