| Description |
vi, 351 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction : the family melodrama of classical narrative cinema / Jane M. Gaines -- Dickens, Griffith, and film theory today / Rick Altman -- Form wars : the political unconscious of formalist theory / Bill Nichols -- Film response from eye to I: the Kuleshov experiment / Norman N. Holland -- Securing the fictional narrative as a tale of the historical real : The return of Martin Guerre / Janet Staiger -- Between melodrama and realism : Anthony Asquith's Underground and King Vidor's The crowd / Christine Gledhill -- The hieroglyph and the whore : D.W. Griffith's Intolerance / Miriam Hansen -- The she-man postmodern bi-sexed performance in film and video / Chris Straayer -- Dead ringer : Jacqueline Onassis and the look-alike / Jane Gaines -- Nostalgia for the present / Fredric Jameson -- Reading dynasty : televeision and reception theory / Jane Feuer -- Dialogues of the living dead / John O. Thompson -- Image/machine/image : on the use and abuse of Marx and metaphor in television theory / Richard Dienst |
| Analysis |
Geschichte |
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Motion pictures Philosophy |
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Motion pictures Social aspects |
| Notes |
Originally published as vol. 88, no. 2 (spring 1989), of South Atlantic quarterly. With additional chapters and index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
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Originally published as vol. 88, no. 2 (spring 1989), of South Atlantic quarterly. With additional chapters and index |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Philosophy.
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects.
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| Author |
Gaines, Jane, 1946-
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| LC no. |
92016657 |
| ISBN |
082231276X (cloth) |
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0822312999 (paperback) |
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