The eloquent screen : a rhetoric of film /
Cinema is commonly hailed as "the universal language," but how does it communicate so effortlessly across cultural and linguistic borders? Drawing on a lifetime's worth of viewing an reviewing, influential critic Gilberto Perez invokes a dizzying array of masters past and present incl...
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University of Minnesota Press,
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Publisher Address: | Minneapolis : |
Publication Dates: | [2019] |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Summary: |
Cinema is commonly hailed as "the universal language," but how does it communicate so effortlessly across cultural and linguistic borders? Drawing on a lifetime's worth of viewing an reviewing, influential critic Gilberto Perez invokes a dizzying array of masters past and present including Chaplin, Ford, Kiarostami, Eisenstein, Malick, Mizoguchi, Haneke, Hitchcock, and Godard--to explore the transaction between filmmaker and audience. The Eloquent Screen shows how cinema, as the consummate contemporary art form, establishes a thoroughly modern rhetoric in which different points of view are brought into clear focus." |
Item Description: | Includes index. |
Carrier Form: | xxi, 405 pages ; 22 cm |
ISBN: |
9780816641338 (paperback : alkaline paper) : 0816641331 (paperback : alkaline paper) 9780816641321 (hardcover : alkaline paper) 0816641323 (hardcover : alkaline paper) |
Index Number: | PN1995 |
CLC: | J905 |
Call Number: | J905/P438 |
Contents: |
On Gil Perez / John Ford's rhetoric -- Cinematic tropes -- Melodrama and film technique -- Coda: Of identification. |