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Author Thompson, Kristin, 1950-

Title Breaking the glass armor : neoformalist film analysis / Kristin Thompson
Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1988

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Description 1 online resource (x, 361 p., [41] p. of plates )
Contents pt. 1. A neoformalist approach to film analysis: Neoformalist film analysis: one approach, many methods -- pt. The ordinary film: "No, Lestrade, in this case nothing was left to chance": motivation and delay in Terror by night -- pt. 3. Analyzing the dominant: Boredom on the beach: triviality and humor in Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot -- Sawing through the bough: Tout va bien as a Brechtian film -- pt. 4. Defamiliarization within the classical cinema: Duplicitous narration and Stage fright -- Closure within a dream?: point of view in Laura -- pt. 5. A formal look at realism: Realism in the cinema: Bicycle thieves -- An aesthetic of discrepancy: The rules of the game -- pt. 6. The perceptual challenges of parametric form: Play time: comedy on the edge of perception -- Godard's unknown country: Sauve qui peut (la vie) -- The sheen of armor, the whinnies of horses: sparse parametric style in Lancelot du Lac -- Late spring and Ozu's unreasonable style
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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SUBJECT Bibel Philemonbrief gnd
Subject Motion pictures.
Film criticism -- Philosophy
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
Film criticism -- Philosophy
Motion pictures
Filmkritik
Neoformalismus Film
Formalismus Kunst
Estética do cinema.
Filosofia do cinema.
Crítica cinematográfica.
Linguagem cinematográfica.
Genre/Form Motion pictures
Motion pictures.
Films.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021700887
ISBN 9780691213156
0691213151
Other Titles Neoformalist film analysis
Neoformalist film analysis
Neoformalist film analysis