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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811679203321

Autore

Kozloff Sarah

Titolo

Overhearing film dialogue / / Sarah Kozloff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2000

ISBN

0-520-92402-9

1-59734-792-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 p.)

Disciplina

791.43/6

Soggetti

Dialogue in motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Filmography: p. 289-295.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-310) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Functions of Dialogue in Narrative Film; 2. Structural and Stylistic Variables; 3. Integration; 4. Verbal Frontiers: Dialogue in Westerns; 5. Word Play: Dialogue in Screwball Comedies; 6. Words as Weapons: Dialogue in Gangster Films; 7. Misunderstandings: Dialogue in Melodramas; Conclusion; Notes; Select Filmography; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Since the birth of cinema, film has been lauded as a visual rather than a verbal medium; this sentiment was epitomized by John Ford's assertion in 1964 that, ""When a motion picture is at its best, it is long on action and short on dialogue."" Little serious work has been done on the subject of film dialogue, yet what characters say and how they say it has been crucial to our experience and understanding of every film since the coming of sound.