Format:
1 online resource (300 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780816699278
Content:
At a time when traditional film theory privileged the purely visual, Film Hieroglyphs introduced a new way of watching film-examining the ways in which writing bears on cinema. Author Tom Conley gives special consideration to the points (ruptures) at which story, image, and writing appear to be at odds with one another. Conley hypothesizes that major directors-Renoir, Lang, Walsh, Rossellini-tend unconsciously to meld history and ideology. Graphic elements are seen as simultaneously foreign and integral to the field of the image. From these contradictions hieroglyphs emerge that mark a design attesting to a hidden rhetoric and to configurations of meaning that cinema cannot always control
Note:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Hieroglyphs Then and Now -- Introduction -- 1. The Filmic Icon: Boudu sauvé des eaux -- 2. The Law of the Letter: Scarlet Street -- 3. Dummies Revived: Manpower -- 4. The Nether Eye: Objective, Burma! -- 5. Facts and Figures of History: Paisan -- 6. The Human Alphabet: La bête humaine -- 7. Decoding Film Noir: The Killers, High Sierra, and White Heat -- Epilogue -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Additional Edition:
Print version Conley, Tom Film Hieroglyphs Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press,c1966 ISBN 9780816649709
Language:
English
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