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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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press
©2006.
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| Online adgang: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.cttts3wt |
Indholdsfortegnelse:
- 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.