Suspicious of what he called the spectator's “sticky” adherence to the screen, Roland Barthes had a cautious attitude towards cinema. Falling into a hypnoti

'Roland Barthes' Cinema' re-examines and recontextualizes the competing critical and theoretical strands in Barthes's thinking, and reassesses the relevance of

Essays on semiology

A major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback. Roland Barthes was

"Examining the themes of presence and absence, the relationship between photography and theatre, history and death, these 'reflections on photography' begin as