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Author:   James Schamus
Publisher:   University of Washington Press
Imprint:   University of Washington Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 0.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.204kg
ISBN:  

9780295988542

ISBN 10:   0295988541
Pages:   128
Publication Date:   18 August 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"List of illustrations Acknowledgments Why a book about Gertrud? If Gertrud is such a great failure, how is it so great? What does the ""Real"" have to do with Gertrud's ""talkiness""? Why was Dreyer so fascinated with the ""real"" Gertrud? Why can't images and words (and men and women) stay married in Gertrud? Why are Dreyer's images, when they ""quote,"" so obscene? So what, after all, is the tapestry quoting? Is Gertrud an ekphrastic film? At last, here's Dreyer's probable source -- but does it matter that we found it? Is Dreyer quoting Botticelli? What is Dreyer teaching us about the history of perspective, and how is Gertrud so interesting a contributor to this topic? What does perspective have to do with free will? How is Gertrud a kind of remake of The Passion of Joan of Arc? How did the Virgin Mary really get pregnant (and is that why Gertrud is childless)? Why are Joan and Gertrud so ""hysterical""? How does the struggle between Dreyer's words and images open us up to the Real? Credits Cast Bibliography Index"

Reviews

A nimble monograph. Schamus is a true cosmopolite of the movies-- an Oscar-nominated producer and screenwriter, the CEO of Focus Features, a Columbia University film professor, and now, it turns out, a first-rate scholarly critic. Watch (Gertrude) with care, read Schamus's action-packed study, and your cinematic life will be genuinely, and permanently, enriched. Film Quarterly Schamus, best known as Ang Lee's regular screenwriter/producer (Brokeback Mountain, Lust Caution), pens a fascinating study of a single scene in Carl Dreyer's late, Ibsenite masterpiece Gertrud (1964). Mainly for film wonks, but with passages of hypnotic perception. Financial Times

Schamus creates an intricate web of connections that sheds light especially on the conflicted relation of image and text in Dreyer's films. Brigitte Peuker, Yale University

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James Schamus is a professor in the School of Arts, Columbia University, and the CEO of Focus Features. His screenwriting and producing credits include The Ice Storm, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and a number of other films from his long collaboration with Ang Lee.

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