The World in a Frame
What We See in Films, 25th Anniversary Edition
Will be published approx. on 1. April 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-226-07156-5 (ISBN)
Description
Now a classic, The World in a Frame covers the history of popular American films from the 1930s to the 1970s. Leo Braudy, one of America's leading film critics, gives an account of the histories of visual style and film genres, as well as techniques of characterization - all in an evolving cultural context. This twenty-fifth anniversary edition includes a new preface addressing developments in film since 1976.
Reviews / Votes
"An exciting, entertaining exploration of films.... [Braudy] attempts to understand rather than promulgate rules and categories, and somehow to keep the criteria of enjoyment in some meaningful connection with the criteria of judgment." - Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles TimesMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Chicago
United States
Publishing group
The University of Chicago Press
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 21 mm
Width: 13 mm
Thickness: 2 mm
Weight
312 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-226-07156-5 (9780226071565)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Leo Braudy is Leo S. Bing Professor of English at the University of Southern California. He is the author, most recently, of The Frenzy of Renown. Fame and Its History, second edition and coeditor of Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings, fifth edition.