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Film hieroglyphs [[electronic resource] ] : ruptures in classical cinema / / Tom Conley, with a new Introduction



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Autore: Conley Tom Visualizza persona
Titolo: Film hieroglyphs [[electronic resource] ] : ruptures in classical cinema / / Tom Conley, with a new Introduction Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2006
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (300 p.)
Disciplina: 791.4309
Soggetto topico: Motion picture plays - History and criticism
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Originally published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1991.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-241) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Hieroglyphs Then and Now; Introduction; 1. The Filmic Icon: Boudu sauvé des eaux; 2. The Law of the Letter: Scarlet Street; 3. Dummies Revived: Manpower; 4. The Nether Eye: Objective, Burma!; 5. Facts and Figures of History: Paisan; 6. The Human Alphabet: La bête humaine; 7. Decoding Film Noir: The Killers, High Sierra, and White Heat; Epilogue; Appendix; Notes; Index
Sommario/riassunto: At a time when traditional film theory privileged the purely visual, Film Hieroglyphs introduced a new way of watching film-examining the ways in which writing bears on cinema. Author Tom Conley gives special consideration to the points (ruptures) at which story, image, and writing appear to be at odds with one another. Conley hypothesizes that major directors-Renoir, Lang, Walsh, Rossellini-tend unconsciously to meld history and ideology. Graphic elements are seen as simultaneously foreign and integral to the field of the image. From these contradictions hieroglyphs emerge that mark a design
Titolo autorizzato: Film hieroglyphs  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8166-9927-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910452122003321
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