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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459226403321

Autore

Cardullo Bert

Titolo

Screen writings . Volume 1 Partial views of a total art, classic to contemporary / / Bert Cardullo [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Anthem Press, , 2010

ISBN

1-283-37747-0

9786613377470

1-84331-343-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 222 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Anthem media and studies

Disciplina

791.43/75

Soggetti

Motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 31 May 2016).

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Main Body; Introduction: The Necessary Film; Part I. Children and the Cinema; 1. Children of a Lesser God: The Children's Film from De Sica to Kore-eda; 2. Death Wish, Child's Whim, 'Auteurist' Will: Boyer and Clement's 'Forbidden Games' Replayed; 3. War Games: On Bahman Ghobadi's 'Turtles Can Fly'; Part II. Literature and Adaptation; 4. ""Outing"" Edward, Outfitting Marlowe: Derek Jarman's Film of 'Edward II'; 5. Theater and Fiction into Film: Notes on Paradigmatic Scenes and Emblematic Adaptations

Illustrations Part III. Views and Interviews; 6. Married to the Job: Ermanno Olmi's 'Il posto' and 'I fidanzati' Reconsidered; 7. Reflecting Reality - and Mystery: An Interview with Ermanno Olmi; 8. Lower Depths, Higher Planes: On the Dardennes' 'La Promesse', ' Rosetta', 'The Son' and 'L'Enfant'; 9. The Cinema of Resistance: An Interview with Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne; Part IV. World Enough and Time; 10. The World Is Too Much with Us: Violence on Screen, or Realism, Reality, and the An-esthetic of the Unreal

11. Characterizing Space, Configuring Time: Notes, Mostly on Antonioni's 'L'avventura' and 'La notte'12. As Time Goes By: Memory and the Movies; End Matter; Bibliography of Related Criticism; Index

Sommario/riassunto

'Screen Writings: Partial Views of a Total Art, Classic to Contemporary' offers close readings of individual films intended to explain how



moviemakers use the resources of the medium to pursue complex and significant humanistic goals.