Interpreting the Moving Image
Published on 28. May 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
392 pages
978-0-521-58970-3 (ISBN)
Description
Interpreting the Moving Image is a collection of essays by one of the most astute critics of cinema at work today. This volume provides a close analysis of major films of both the narrative and the avant-garde traditions. Written in accessible and engaging language, it also serves as a guide to such classics as The Cabinet of Dr Caligari and Citizen Kane, as well as the art of cinema in the post-modern era.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
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Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
635 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-58970-3 (9780521589703)
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Interpreting the Moving Image
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05/1998
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Noel Carroll
Interpreting the Moving Image
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05/1998
Cambridge University Press
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Content
Forward; 'Through Carroll's Looking Glass of Criticism' Tom Gunning; Introduction; 1. The cabinet of Dr. Kracauer; 2. Entr'acte, Paris and Dada; 3. The Gold Rush; 4. Keaton: film acting as action; 5. Buster Keaton, The General and visible intelligibility; 6. For God and Country; 7. Lang, Pabst and Sound; 8. Notes on Dreyer's Vampyr; 9. King Kong: ape and essence; 10. Becky Sharp takes over; 11. Interpreting Citizen Kane; 12. Mind, medium and metaphor in Harry Smith's Heaven and Earth Magic; 13. Welles and Kafka; 14. Nothing But A Man and The Cool World; 15. Identity and difference: from ritual symbolisim to condensation in Anger's Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome; 16. Text of Light; 17. Joan Jonas: making the image visible; 18. Introduction to Journeys from Berlin/1971; 19. The future of allusion: Hollywood in the seventies (and Beyond); 20. Back to basics; 21. Amy Taubin's bag; 22. Herzog, presence and paradox; 23. Film in the age of postmodernism.