Abstract
Roland Barthes was notorious for his self-proclaimed "resistance" to cinema. It strikes as a paradox to that claim because Barthes undeniably left a rich seam of writing on the subject. This paper examines Barthes's complex thought on the allure of cinema by reading his two essays on it – "Garbo's Face" and "Leaving the Movie Theater" – along with Barthes' later train of thought and other post-structural ideas of the reenchantment. It proposes that Barthes's "resistance" to moving images should be reconsidered as a neutral strategy to mask his fascination with the allure of cinema.
First Page
55
Last Page
62
Recommended Citation
Shen, Anni. 2019. "The Allure of Moving Images: Unmasking Roland Barthes." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 39, (1): pp.55-62. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol39/iss1/14
