Robert B Ray

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The Structure of Complex Images (2020)Hardcover - 2020, 10 May 2020

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Part of Series
Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television
Print Length
259 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Palgrave MacMillan
Date Published
10 May 2020
ISBN-10
303040630X
ISBN-13
9783030406301

Description

After over a century of existence, the cinema still has its mysteries. Why, for example, is the job we call movie stardom unlike any other in the world? How do films provide so much unconcealed information that we fail to notice? What makes it hard to define what counts as "acting"? How do movies like Casablanca and Breathless store the film and world histories of their generations? How can we reconcile auteurism's celebration of the movie director's authority with the camera's automatism? Why have the last four decades of film criticism so often neglected such questions? After beginning with an overview of film studies, this book proposes a shift from predictable theoretical approaches to models that acknowledge the perplexities and mysteries of the movies. Deriving methods from cinephilia, Wittgenstein, Richard Rorty, Stanley Cavell, Eleanor Duckworth, V. F. Perkins, and James Naremore, Robert B. Ray offers close readings that call attention to what we have missed in such classic films as La Règle du Jeu, It Happened One Night, It's a Wonderful Life, Vertigo, Holiday, The Philadelphia Story, Casablanca, Breathless, and Tickets.

Product Details

Author:
Robert B Ray
Book Edition:
2020
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
NL
Date Published:
10 May 2020
Dimensions:
21.01 x 14.81 x 1.6 cm
ISBN-10:
303040630X
ISBN-13:
9783030406301
Language:
English
Location:
Cham
Pages:
259
Weight:
476.27 gm

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