03213nam 22005415 450 991048333140332120250610110205.09783030629458303062945710.1007/978-3-030-62945-8(CKB)4900000000508862(MiAaPQ)EBC6468501(DE-He213)978-3-030-62945-8(MiAaPQ)EBC29077913(EXLCZ)99490000000050886220210202d2021 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAmbiguity and Film Criticism Reasonable Doubt /by Hoi Lun Law1st ed. 2021.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2021.1 online resource (190 pages) illustrationsPalgrave Close Readings in Film and Television,2634-61419783030629441 3030629449 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Rethinking Ambiguity -- Part One: Considering Context and Convention -- 1. Difficulty of Explanation: The Enigmatic Vase Shots in Late Spring -- 2. Perplexing Style: The Programmatic Editing Strategy of Ten -- 3. Appropriateness of Clarification: Analytical Découpage and the Reductive Viewpoint -- Part Two: Reading in Detail -- 4. Depth of Suggestion: The Demonstrative Gestures in In a Lonely Place -- 5. Uncertainty of Understanding: The Unsettling Direct Look in Beyond a Reasonable Doubt -- Part Three: Coming to a Close -- 6. Questioning Closure: The Inconclusive Final Moments of Force Majeur -- Concluding Remarks: Reason and Responsibility.This book defends an account of ambiguity which illuminates the aesthetic possibilities of film and the nature of film criticism. Ambiguity typically describes the condition of multiple meanings. But we can find multiple meanings in what appears unambiguous to us. So, what makes ambiguity ambiguous? This study argues that a sense of uncertainty is vital to the concept. Ambiguity is what presses us to inquire into our puzzlement over a movie, to persistently ask "why is it as it is?" Notably, this account of the concept is also an account of its criticism. It recognises that a satisfying assessment of what is ambiguous involves both our reason and doubt; that is, reason and doubt can work together in our practice of reading. This book, then, considers ambiguity as a form of reasonable doubt, one that invites us to reflect on our critical efforts, rethinking the operation of film criticism. .Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television,2634-6141Motion picturesClose Readings in Film and TVFilm TheoryMotion pictures.Close Readings in Film and TV.Film Theory.821.1791.43015Law Hoi Lun1228576MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910483331403321Ambiguity and film criticism2852251UNINA