Interpreting the Moving Image
Interpreting the Moving Image
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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.
- Can be used in introductory film history courses as a supplement to a film history textbook
- Carroll is one of the pre-eminent film critics of our time
Product details
May 1998Paperback
9780521589703
392 pages
230 × 153 × 20 mm
0.542kg
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Table of Contents
- 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.
