| Description |
xviii, 370 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in film |
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Cambridge studies in film.
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| Contents |
Foreword: Through Carroll's Looking Glass of Criticism / Tom Gunning -- 1. The Cabinet of Dr. Kracauer -- 2. Entr'acte, Paris and Dada -- 3. The Gold Rush -- 4. Keaton: Film Acting as Action -- 5. Buster Keaton, The General, and Visible Intelligibility -- 6. For God and Country -- 7. Lang, Pabst, and Sound -- 8. Notes on Dreyer's Vampyr -- 9. King Kong: Ape and Essence -- 10. Becky Sharp Takes Over -- 11. Interpreting Citizen Kane -- 12. The Moral Ecology of Melodrama: The Family Plot and Magnificent Obsession -- 13. Mind, Medium, and Metaphor in Harry Smith's Heaven and Earth Magic -- 14. Welles and Kafka -- 15. Nothing But a Man and The Cool World -- 16. Identity and Difference: From Ritual Symbolism to Condensation in Anger's Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome -- 17. Text of Light -- 18. Joan Jonas: Making the Image Visible -- 19. Introduction to Journeys from Berlin/1971 -- 20. The Future of Allusion: Hollywood in the Seventies (and Beyond) -- 21. Back to Basics |
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22. Amy Taubin's Bag -- 23. Herzog, Presence, and Paradox -- 24. Film in the Age of Postmodernism |
| Summary |
Interpreting the Moving Image is a collection of essays by one of the most astute critics of cinema at work today. This volume provides a close analysis of major films of both the narrative and the avant-garde traditions. Written in accessible and engaging language, it also serves as a guide to such classics as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Citizen Kane, as well as the art of cinema in the postmodern era |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-358) and index |
| Subject |
Motion pictures.
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| LC no. |
97022892 |
| ISBN |
0521580390 (hc) |
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0521589703 (paperback) |
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