| Description |
xii, 178 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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'ete (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 -- Eloge 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. |
| Subject |
Film criticism.
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Motion pictures -- History.
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| Added Author |
Brown, Tom, 1978-
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Walters, James (James R.)
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British Film Institute.
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| ISBN |
9781844573356 (pbk.) |
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1844573354 (pbk.) |
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9781844573363 (hbk.) |
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1844573362 (hbk.) |
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