Projecting Illusion

Film Spectatorship and the Impression of Reality

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by Richard Allen

Cambridge University Press

Due/Published May 1997, 188 pages, paper

ISBN 0521587158

Projecting Illustion offers a systematic analysis of the impression of reality in the cinema and the pleasure it provides the film spectator.Film affords an especially compelling aesthetic experience that can be considered as a form of illusion akin to the experience of daydream and dream. Examining the concept of illusion and its relationship to fantasy in the experience of visual representation, Richard Allen situates his explanation within the context of an analytical criticism of contemporary film theory.