Making meaning [[electronic resource] ] : inference and rhetoric in the interpretation of cinema / / David Bordwell

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451274103321
• Autore: Bordwell David
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 1989
• ISBN: 0-674-02853-8
• Descrizione fisica: xvi, 334 p. : ill
• Collana: Harvard film studies
• Disciplina: 791.43/01/5
• Soggetti: Film criticism; Motion pictures; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-328) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Making Films Mean -- Interpretation as Construction -- Meaning Made -- Interpretive Doctrines -- 2. Routines and Practices -- Introduction -- Interpretation Inc. -- The Logic of Discovery or Problem-Solving -- The Logic of Justification or Rhetoric -- An Anatomy of Interpretation -- 3. Interpretation as Explication -- The French Connection -- Explication Academicized -- Picture Planes -- Meaning and Unity -- 4. Symptomatic Interpretation -- Introduction -- Culture Dream and Lauren Bacall -- Myth as Antinomy -- Systeme a la Mode -- The Contradictory Text -- Symptoms and Explications -- 5. Semantic Fields -- Introduction -- Meanings in Structures -- Structures of Meaning -- The Role of Semantic Fields -- 6. Schemata and Heuristics -- Mapping as Making -- Knowledge Structures and Routines -- Mapping as Modeling -- 7. Two Basic Schemata -- Is There a Class for This Text? -- Making Films Personal -- 8. Text Schemata -- Introduction -- A Bull's-Eye Schema -- Meaning Inside Out and Outside In -- Textual Trajectories -- Doctrines into Diachronies -- 9. Interpretation as Rhetoric -- Introduction -- Sample Strategies -- Theory Talk -- 10. Rhetoric in Action: Seven Models of Psycho -- Jean Douchet, "Hitch and His Public" (1960) -- Robin Wood, "Psycho," Hitchcock's Films (1965) -- Raymond Durgnat, "Inside Norman Bates," Films and Feelings (1967) -- V. F. Perkins, "The World and Its Image," Film as Film (1972) -- ; Raymond Bellour, "Psychosis, Neurosis, Perversion" (1979) -- Barbara Klinger, "Psycho: The Institutionalization of Female Sexuality" (1982) -- Leland Poague, "Links in a Chain: Psycho and Film Classicism" (1986) -- 11. Why Not to Read a Film -- The Ends of Interpretation -- The End of Interpretation? -- Prospects for a Poetics -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: David Bordwell’s new book is at once a history of film criticism, an analysis of how critics interpret film, and a proposal for an alternative program for film studies. It is an anatomy of film criticism meant to reset the agenda for film scholarship. As such Making Meaning should be a landmark book, a focus for debate from which future film study will evolve. Bordwell systematically maps different strategies for interpreting films and making meaning, illustrating his points with a vast array of examples from Western film criticism. Following an introductory chapter that sets out the terms and scope of the argument, Bordwell goes on to show how critical institutions constrain and contain the very practices they promote, and how the interpretation of texts has become a central preoccupation of the humanities. He gives lucid accounts of the development of film criticism in France, Britain, and the United States since World War II; analyzes this development through two important types of criticism, thematic-explicatory and symptomatic; and shows that both types, usually seen as antithetical, in fact have much in common. These diverse and even warring schools of criticism share conventional, rhetorical, and problem-solving techniques—a point that has broad-ranging implications for the way critics practice their art. The book concludes with a survey of the alternatives to criticism based on interpretation and, finally, with the proposal that a historical poetics of cinema offers the most fruitful framework for film analysis.

« Basiléia » : Les Césars, les rois d’Orient et les « Mages » / / Jean Gagé

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910496018803321
• Autore: Gagé Jean
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Paris, : Les Belles Lettres, 2021
• ISBN: 2-251-91437-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (396 p.)
• Collana: Études Anciennes
• Soggetti: Classics; History; astrologie; propagande; pouvoir; Asie mineure; mysticisme; soleil; mages; Perse; prodiges; sérapéum d’Alexandrie
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Francese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: "D’Auguste (63 av. J.-C.) à Constantin (272-337) les empereurs romains ont constamment cherché à légitimer leur pouvoir ambigu par une sorte de consécration surnaturelle. D’Apollon, saint patron d’Octave et des néo-pythagoriciens, au Soleil Invincible d’Aurélien et même au Comes radié de Constantin, la continuité est remarquable. Un pouvoir qui a quelque chose de monstrueux et d’illégal (du moins par rapport aux institutions traditionnelles et au droit humain) éprouve toujours le besoin de se justifier au plan du droit divin. La religion impériale, avec ses allégories politiques et ses rites d’apothéose, n’est pas seule en cause dans cette question qui s’avère de première importance, dès qu’on veut comprendre le comportement des Césars, ; des bons comme des mauvais, des fous comme des sages. En sept chapitres riches de suggestions et d’hypothèses fécondes, même si l’on ne s’y rallie pas d’emblée, M. Jean Gagé montre que des princes — héritiers ou régnants — ont demandé à la magie et à l’astrologie l’auréole prestigieuse d’une vraie basiléia. Plusieurs sont allés quérir en Orient ce prestige du souverain marqué par les dieux, fût-ce à la faveur d'une mission diplomatique." (Robert Turcan, de l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres).