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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459860603321

Autore

Cardullo Bert

Titolo

Screen writings . Volume 2 Genres, classics, and aesthetics / / Bert Cardullo [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Anthem Press, , 2010

ISBN

1-283-37766-7

9786613377661

1-84331-388-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 185 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Anthem media and film 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; Introduction; Part I: Film Genres, Film Classics, and Film Aesthetics; 1. Shooting the City: The Gangster, Manhattanites, and the Movies; 2. Back to the Future, or the Vanguard Meets the Rearguard; 3. Flags and Letters, Men and War; 4. Farce, Dreams, and Desire: Some Like It Hot Re-viewed; Interlude; 5. Switching Genres, or Playing to the Camera, Playing to the House: Stage vs. Screen Acting; 6. On the Road Again: The Road Film and the Two Coppolas

7. The Coming-of-Age Film à la Fellini: The Case of I vitelloniPart II. Classification, Re-classification, and Assessment; 8. Early vs. Later Bergman: Winter Light and Autumn Sonata Revisited; 9. "Everyone Has His Reasons": Words, Images, and La grande illusion in the Cinema of Jean Renoir; 10. A Passage to Tokyo: The Art of Ozu, Remembered; 11. Through the Looking Glass: The American Art Cinema in an Age of Social Change; End Matter; Bibliography of Related Criticism; Index:Screen Writings,Volume 2

Sommario/riassunto

'Screen Writings: Genres, Classics, and Aesthetics' offers close readings of genre films and acknowledged film classics in an attempt to explore both the aesthetics of genre and the definition of  'classic' - as well as the changing perception of so-called classic movies over time.