Wit's end [[electronic resource] ] : making sense of the great movies / / by James Combs

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910786037703321
• Autore: Combs James E
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars, 2010
• ISBN: 1-4438-2469-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (372 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.4301
• Soggetti: Motion pictures - Appreciation; Motion pictures - Sociological aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-362).
• Nota di contenuto: TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CONCLUSION; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY
• Sommario/riassunto: This book is a study of the "Great Movies," that fluid category of feature films deemed by various authorities-film societies, critics, academics, and movie enthusiasts-to be the enduring and memorable works of cinematic history. But what are they about? In Wit's End, the author attempts to "make sense" of these films in order to understand their greatness in the context of their relation to other films and to the worlds they come from and recreate on screen. To that end, we employ the conce...