Breaking the glass armor : neoformalist film analysis - Thompson, Kristin, 1950- (Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1988)
pt. 1. A neoformalist approach to film analysis: Neoformalist film analysis: one approach, many methods -- pt. The ordinary film: "No, Lestrade, in this case nothing was left to chance": motivation and delay in Terror by night -- pt. 3. Analyzing the dominant: Boredom on the beach: triviality and humor in Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot -- Sawing through the bough: Tout va bien as a Brechtian film -- pt. 4. Defamiliarization within the classical cinema: Duplicitous narration and Stage fright -- Closure within a dream?: point of view in Laura -- pt. 5. A formal look at realism: Realism in the cinema: Bicycle thieves -- An aesthetic of discrepancy: The rules of the game -- pt. 6. The perceptual challenges of parametric form: Play time: comedy on the edge of perception -- Godard's unknown country: Sauve qui peut (la vie) -- The sheen of armor, the whinnies of horses: sparse parametric style in Lancelot du Lac -- Late spring and Ozu's unreasonable style.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Keywords: Bibel; Motion pictures; Film criticism -- Philosophy; Cinéma.; Cinéma -- Philosophie; Critique cinématographique -- Philosophie; PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism; Film criticism -- Philosophy; Motion pictures; Filmkritik; Neoformalismus; Formalismus; Estética do cinema; Filosofia do cinema; Crítica cinematográfica.; Linguagem cinematográfica.; Aufsatzsammlung; Motion pictures; Motion pictures; Films