Endings in the Cinema : Thresholds, Water and the Beach / / by Michael Walker |
Autore | Walker Michael |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2020.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (321 pages) |
Disciplina |
791.4309
791.4301 |
Soggetto topico |
Motion pictures
Film Theory Close Reading |
ISBN | 3-030-31657-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- THRESHOLDS AND BOUNDARIES -- Stations -- i. The station as stage -- ii. Lovers’ separations -- iii. World War 2 -- Wartime homecoming -- iv. Stations and death -- WATER -- i. The waterside -- Ship and boat departure -- ii. On water -- iii. In and under water -- KEY ENDING TROPES AND MOTIFS -- i. Sunsets -- ii. Voice-overs -- iii. ‘Let’s go home’ -- iv. Looking at or addressing the camera -- v. Emblematic shots -- vi. Theatricality -- BEACHES -- Introduction -- Early History -- i. Silent Cinema -- ii. The 1930s -- iii. World War 2 -- Concepts and development -- i. The Woman on the Beach -- 1954 and after -- ii. Beach holidays -- iii. Tabula rasa -- iv. Empty beach -- v. Renewal -- Auteurist inflections -- i. La nouvelle vague and after -- ii. Beach auteurs: Fellini, Kurys, Ozon, Kitano -- Themes and motifs -- i. Death -- Dying -- Suicides -- ii. War -- iii. Hallucination, breakdown and insanity -- iv. The family and childhood -- v. Mourning and solitary reflection -- vi. Home movies -- vii. Fantasy -- viii. Apocalypse and post-apocalypse -- ix. Paradise and lost paradise -- x. Other categories and Conclusion -- Appendix: Films with beach endings -- Bibliography. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910484871003321 |
Walker Michael | ||
Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Hitchcock's motifs / / Michael Walker [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Walker Michael |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam University Press, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (490 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 791.4302/33092 |
Collana | Film culture in transition |
Soggetto topico |
Film, TV & radio
Individual film directors, film-makers |
Soggetto non controllato |
motion pictures
film |
ISBN |
1280958162
9786610958160 9048505453 1423746295 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I Hitchcock, Motifs and Melodrama; Part II The Key Motifs; Appendix I: TV Episodes; Appendix II: Articles on Hitchcock's motifs; Appendix III: Definitions; References; Filmography; List of illustrations; Index of Hitchcock's films and their motifs; General Index |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996207170903316 |
Walker Michael | ||
Amsterdam University Press, 2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Hitchcock's motifs / / Michael Walker |
Autore | Walker Michael |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam, : Amsterdam University Press, c2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (490 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 791.4302/33092 |
Collana | Film culture in transition |
Soggetto topico | Motion pictures |
ISBN |
1280958162
9786610958160 9048505453 1423746295 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I Hitchcock, Motifs and Melodrama; Part II The Key Motifs; Appendix I: TV Episodes; Appendix II: Articles on Hitchcock's motifs; Appendix III: Definitions; References; Filmography; List of illustrations; Index of Hitchcock's films and their motifs; General Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910144871903321 |
Walker Michael | ||
Amsterdam, : Amsterdam University Press, c2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Modern ghost melodramas : 'what lies beneath' / / Michael Walker [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Walker Michael |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (467 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 791.43675 |
Collana | Film culture in transition |
Soggetto topico |
Ghosts in motion pictures
Motion pictures - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
International ghost movies
Melodrama Modern generic cycle |
ISBN | 90-485-2934-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Three major predecessors -- The fallow years: an assortment of ghosts bringing back the past -- Ghosts in the city -- Ghosts in the machine -- Schoolgirl angst -- Childhood abuse -- Generic developments 1: messages from the dead -- Spain and history 1: politics and war -- Hollywood reinflections -- Asian variations -- Generic developments 2: ghosts in the woman's film -- Ghosts and institutions 1: South Korea -- Ghosts and institutions 2: the west -- National variations -- Anatomy of the ghost melodrama -- Spain and history 2: the Franco legacy and the Catholic church -- The return of the British ghost film -- Recent US developments and conclusion. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792806103321 |
Walker Michael | ||
Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2017 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Modern ghost melodramas : 'what lies beneath' / / Michael Walker [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Walker Michael |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (467 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 791.43675 |
Collana | Film culture in transition |
Soggetto topico |
Ghosts in motion pictures
Motion pictures - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
International ghost movies
Melodrama Modern generic cycle |
ISBN | 90-485-2934-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Three major predecessors -- The fallow years: an assortment of ghosts bringing back the past -- Ghosts in the city -- Ghosts in the machine -- Schoolgirl angst -- Childhood abuse -- Generic developments 1: messages from the dead -- Spain and history 1: politics and war -- Hollywood reinflections -- Asian variations -- Generic developments 2: ghosts in the woman's film -- Ghosts and institutions 1: South Korea -- Ghosts and institutions 2: the west -- National variations -- Anatomy of the ghost melodrama -- Spain and history 2: the Franco legacy and the Catholic church -- The return of the British ghost film -- Recent US developments and conclusion. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818000803321 |
Walker Michael | ||
Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2017 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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