Film hieroglyphs : ruptures in classical cinema /

At a time when traditional film theory privileged the purely visual, Film Hieroglyphs introduced a new way of watching film-examining the ways in which writing bears on cinema. Author Tom Conley gives special consideration to the points (ruptures) at which story, image, and writing appear to be at o...

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Autor principal: Conley, Tom (Autor)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press ©2006.
Accés en línia:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.cttts3wt
Taula de continguts:
  • Hieroglyphs Then and Now
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Filmic Icon: Boudu sauvé des eaux
  • 2. The Law of the Letter: Scarlet Street
  • 3. Dummies Revived: Manpower
  • 4. The Nether Eye: Objective, Burma!
  • 5. Facts and Figures of History: Paisan
  • 6. The Human Alphabet: La bête humaine
  • 7. Decoding Film Noir: The Killers, High Sierra, and White Heat
  • Epilogue.