Télécharger le livre :  Ambiguity and Film Criticism

This book defends an account of ambiguity which illuminates the aesthetic possibilities of film and the nature of film criticism. Ambiguity typically describes the condition of multiple meanings. But we can find multiple meanings in what appears unambiguous to us. So,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-02-02
Collection : Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television
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Télécharger le livre :  Film Noir and the Possibilities of Hollywood

Built around close readings of 11 noir films, this book seeks to refresh our understanding of “film noir” by returning to the films themselves. Pushing against totalizing or generalizing approaches, which may have the unintended effect of flattening out significant...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-05-23
Collection : Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television
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Télécharger le livre :  The Structure of Complex Images

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...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-05-09
Collection : Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television
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Télécharger le livre :  Displacements

This book is about the aesthetics and politics of contemporary artists’ moving image installations, and the ways that they use temporal and spatial relationships in the gallery to connect with geopolitical issues. Displaced from the cinema, moving images increasingly...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-11-20
Collection : Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television
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Télécharger le livre :  Adultery and the Female Star

This book provides an in-depth study of Bette Davis, Joan Fontaine, Kim Novak and Meryl Streep, and the treatment of adultery in their films. It avoids the near-impossible challenge of writing about the sheer volume of adultery in film by focusing on specific periods in...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-05-24
Collection : Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television
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Télécharger le livre :  The Long Take

This is the first book in English exclusively devoted to the long take, one of the key elements of film style. Increasingly visible in contemporary international media, the long take currently attracts a good deal of attention in criticism and commentary. There are also...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-10-27
Collection : Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television
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Télécharger le livre :  Testing Coherence in Narrative Film

This book examines the concept of coherence in film studies. It asks if there are ways to appreciate the achievement of coherence in narrative films that are characterised by an eccentric or difficult style, as well as by an apparently confusing intelligibility. In...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-10-10
Collection : Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television
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Télécharger le livre :  Irony in Film

Irony in Film is the first book about ironic expression in this medium. We often feel the need to call films or aspects of them ironic; but what exactly does this mean? How do films create irony? Might certain features of the medium help or hinder its ironic potential?...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-11-09
Collection : Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television
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Télécharger le livre :  Expressive Spaces in Digital 3D Cinema

This book puts forward a more considered perspective on 3D, which is often seen as a distracting gimmick at odds with artful cinematic storytelling. Owen Weetch looks at how stereography brings added significance and expressivity to individual films that all showcase...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-09-26
Collection : Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television
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Télécharger le livre :  Breaking Bad and Dignity

An ambitious interpretation of the critically celebrated and widely popular crime drama Breaking Bad , this book argues that not only should the series be understood as a show that revolves around the dramatic stakes of dignity, but that to do so reveals - in new ways -...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-01-26
Collection : Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television
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Télécharger le livre :  Mise en Scène and Film Style

Styles of filmmaking have changed greatly from classical Hollywood through to our digital era. So, too, have the ways in which film critics and scholars have analysed these transformations in film style. This book explores two central style concepts, mise en scène and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-11-04
Collection : Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television
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Télécharger le livre :  Texture In Film

Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives of art, literature and music, Donaldson develops a stimulating understanding of a concept that has received little detailed attention in relation to film. Based in close analysis, Texture in Film brings discussion of style and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-08-13
Collection : Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television
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Télécharger le livre :  Style in British Television Drama

This pioneering book provides detailed analysis of scenes from nine British television dramas produced between 1954 and 2001. Taking dinner table scenes as a recurring motif, the study analyses changes in televisual style with reference to production practices,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-10-18
Collection : Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television
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Télécharger le livre :  Letters and Literacy in Hollywood Film

We are so used to images of words that it is easy to ignore the different ways in which they work in films. This book explores both the letters that come in the post and the many other kinds that are offered to us on screen.
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-07-23
Collection : Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television
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