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1 Online-Ressource (xii, 178 pages)
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illustrations
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9781838711351
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"Film is made of moments. In its earliest form, the cinema was a moment: mere seconds recorded and projected into the darkness. Even as film has developed into today's complex and intricate medium, it is the brief, temporary and transitory that combines to create the whole. Our memories of films are composed of the moments we deem to be crucial: touchstones for our understanding and appreciation. Moments matter. The 38 specially commissioned essays in Film Moments examine a wide selection of key scenes across a broad spectrum of national cinemas, historical periods and genres, featuring films by renowned auteurs including Alfred Hitchcock, Jean Renoir and Vincente Minnelli and important contemporary directors such as Pedro Costa, Zhang Ke Jia and Quentin Tarantino, addressing films including City Lights, Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, The Night of the Hunter, Wild Strawberries, 8 1?2, Bonnie and Clyde, Star Wars, Conte d'été, United 93 and Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. Film Moments provides both an enlightening introduction for students to the diversity of approaches and concerns in the study of film, and a dynamic and vibrant account of key film sequences for anyone interested in enhancing their understanding of cinema."--Bloomsbury publishing
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Shadow play and dripping teat : -- The Night of the Hunter (1955) / Tom Gunning -- Between melodrama and realism : -- Under the Skin of the City (2001) / Laura Mulvey -- Internalising the musical : -- The Band Wagon (1953) / Andrew Klevan -- The visitor's discarded clothes in Theorem (1968) / Stella Bruzzi -- Style and sincerity in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004) / James Walters -- The moves : -- Blood (1989) / Adrian Martin -- The properties of images : -- Lust for Life (1956) / Steve Neale -- Two views over water : -- action and absorption in Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries (1957) / Edward Gallafent -- Making an entrance : -- Bette Davis's first appearance in Jezebel (1938) / Martin Shingler -- A narrative parenthesis in Life is Beautiful (1997) / Deborah Thomas -- The end of summer : -- Conte d'été (1996) / Jacob Leigh -- Enter Lisa : -- Rear Window (1954) / Douglas Pye -- Opening up The Secret Garden (1993) / Susan Smith -- A magnified meeting in Written on the Wind (1956) / Steven Peacock -- "Everything is connected, and everything matters" : -- relationships in I [heart] Huckabees (2004) / John Gibbs -- The Ending of 8 1 / 2 (1963) / Richard Dyer -- Haptic vision and consumerism : -- a moment from Fritz Lang's Siegfried (1924) / Thomas Elsaesser -- Visions of sound in City Lights (1931) / Charles Barr -- "Entertainment and dystopia" : -- Maurice Chevalier performs Avec le sourire (1936) / Tom Brown -- Music, crime and the gaze : -- La Bête humaine (1938) / Ginette Vincendeau -- Thunder and lightning : -- Gone with the Wind (1939) and the Logic of Synchronisation / Rick Altman -- Hearing, fearing : -- the sonic design of suspense in Cat People (1942) / Helen Hanson -- "I've seen him take his knife--" : -- The Searchers (1956) / R.J. Ellis -- Another story : -- myth and history in Bonnie and Clyde (1967) / Pam Cook -- A sculptural moment : -- the epilogue to Les Deux Anglaises et le Continent (1971) / Mark Broughton -- Star Wars (1977) : -- back and forth in time and space / Jonathan Bignell -- Between freedom and confinement : -- music in The World (2004) / Claudia Gorbman -- Performance, with strings attached : -- Team America's (2004) snub to the actor / Alex Clayton -- Éloge de l'Amour (2001) : -- moments in time / Alison Butler -- Contested endings : -- interpreting The Piano's (1993) final scenes / Barbara Klinger -- Mourning, loss and trauma, and the ambiguities of proper and improper desire in Exotica (1994) / Elizabeth Cowie -- Stepping out of Blockbuster mode : -- the lighting of the beacons in The Lord of the Rings : -- The Return of the King (2003) / Kristin Thompson -- Dorothy's dream : -- mindscreen in The Wizard of Oz (1939) / Bruce F. Kawin -- Looking on and looking the other way : -- Hotel Rwanda (2004) and the racialised ethics of spectatorship / Michele Aaron -- Working through the body : -- textual-corporeal strategies in United 93 (2006) / Lisa Purse -- "I wasn't expecting that!" : -- cognition and shock in Alien's (1979) chestburster scene / Jonathan Frome -- The inflection of a dream in Scarlet Street (1945) / George M. Wilson -- Judy's plan : -- a reading of the "Flashback" sequence in Vertigo (1958) / William Rothman.
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Also issued in printing
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781844573356
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781844573363
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Original
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Paperback version ISBN 9781844573356
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Hardback version ISBN 9781844573363
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781838711351
