| Description |
xiv, 207 pages, 17 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction : The art cinema and the work of interpretation -- Broken blossoms : the vulnerable text and the marketing of masochism -- The turn and return of Sunrise -- The fever of an infectious film : L'Atalante and the aesthetics of spontaneity -- Productive discord in the system : Hollywood Meets John Doe -- La Symphonie pastorale, performed by the French Quality Orchestra -- Private scribblings : the crux in the margins around Diary of a country priest -- Realism, rhetoric, and the painting of history in Henry V -- Echoes of art : the distant sounds of Orson Welles -- The passion of identification in the late films of Kenji Mizoguchi -- Conclusion : The work of cinema and the art of interpretation |
| Analysis |
Art films - Critical studies |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Motion picture plays -- History and criticism.
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Motion pictures -- Aesthetics.
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| LC no. |
84001788 |
| ISBN |
0691065853 |
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