| Description |
iv, 229 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
For the Love of Movies: Cinema Paradiso and Storytelling in Film -- How to 'Read' a Film: Guidelines for Interpreting Film -- The Individual and Society: The Solitary and the Communal in Citizen Kane and Witness -- Everything Old is New Again: Updating Traditional Wisdom in A Simple Plan and Clueless -- Fantasy and Reality: The Truman Show, Strictly Ballroom and the Power of Images -- Changing Worlds, Changing Perspectives: The Diverse Visions of Star Wars and Radiance -- Postmodernism and Gender: The Feminine on Film in Orlando and Elizabeth -- Masculine Movies: Being Bogie in The Big Sleep or Coop in High Noon -- Personal History: Life is Beautiful and the Interplay between Memory and Fable -- In the Wild: The Brave New World of Blade Runner -- The Triumph of the Everyman: The Retreat from the Global in The Castle |
| Summary |
Lessons from reel life: movies, meaning and myth-making |
| Notes |
Filmography: p. 213-229 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Social aspects.
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Motion pictures -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
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Motion pictures -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- Australia -- New South Wales.
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Motion pictures.
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| Author |
Banks, Robert (Robert J.), 1939-
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| ISBN |
0859109240 |
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