Reading Time: 11 minutesOverview Suture theory explains how a film can guide the spectator into a stable viewing position through the way shots connect. The concept began with Jacques-Alain Miller in Lacanian psychoanalysis and was adapted to cinema by the Cahiers du cinéma critic Jean-Pierre Oudart in his 1969 essay “La suture,” then developed by Stephen Heath and… Continue reading Suture Theory in Film: Definition, Method, Examples