Flashbacks in Film
Memory & History
1st Edition
Published on 17. December 2013
312 pages
978-1-317-91667-3 (ISBN)
Description
The flashback is a crucial moment in a film narrative, one that captures the cinematic expression of memory, and history. This author's wide-ranging account of this single device reveals it to be an important way of creating cinematic meaning.
Taking as her subject all of film history, the author traces out the history of the flashback, illuminating that history through structuralist narrative theory, psychoanalytic theories of subjectivity, and theories of ideology.
From the American silent film era and the European and Japanese avant-garde of the twenties, from film noir and the psychological melodrama of the forties and fifties to 1980s art and Third World cinema, the flashback has interrogated time and memory, making it a nexus for ideology, representations of the psyche, and shifting cultural attitudes.
Taking as her subject all of film history, the author traces out the history of the flashback, illuminating that history through structuralist narrative theory, psychoanalytic theories of subjectivity, and theories of ideology.
From the American silent film era and the European and Japanese avant-garde of the twenties, from film noir and the psychological melodrama of the forties and fifties to 1980s art and Third World cinema, the flashback has interrogated time and memory, making it a nexus for ideology, representations of the psyche, and shifting cultural attitudes.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
File size
15,12 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-317-91667-3 (9781317916673)
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Person
Maureen Turim
Content
1. Definition and Theory of the Flashback 2. Flashbacks in American Silent Cinema 3. European and Japanese Experimentation with Flashbacks in Silent Films 4. The Subjectivity of History in Hollywood Sound Film 5. Flashbacks and the Psyche in Melodrama and Film Noir 6. Disjunction in the Modernist Flashback
