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OverviewAfter over a century of existence, the cinema still has its mysteries. Why, for example, is the job we call movie stardom unlike any other in the world? How do films provide so much unconcealed information that we fail to notice? What makes it hard to define what counts as “acting”? How do movies like Casablanca and Breathless store the film and world histories of their generations? How can we reconcile auteurism’s celebration of the movie director’s authority with the camera’s automatism? Why have the last four decades of film criticism so often neglected such questions? After beginning with an overview of film studies, this book proposes a shift from predictable theoretical approaches to models that acknowledge the perplexities and mysteries of the movies. Deriving methods from cinephilia, Wittgenstein, Richard Rorty, Stanley Cavell, Eleanor Duckworth, V. F. Perkins, and James Naremore, Robert B. Ray offers closereadings that call attention to what we have missed in such classic films as La Règle du Jeu, It Happened One Night, It’s a Wonderful Life, Vertigo, Holiday, The Philadelphia Story, Casablanca, Breathless, and Tickets. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Robert B. RayPublisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Edition: 1st ed. 2020 Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9783030406332ISBN 10: 3030406334 Pages: 259 Publication Date: 11 May 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsPart I: Film Studies and Its Problems.- 1. Movie vs. Screen: The Great Divide in Film Studies.- 2. The Automatic Auteur, or, A Certain Tendency in Film Criticism.- Part II: Cinephilia, Cavell, and Description-as-Method.- 3. Cinephilia and Method.- 4. Cavell, Thoreau, and the Movies.- Part III: Movie Star Performance.- 5. The Mystery of Movie Stardom.- 6. Vertigo: Why Doesn’t Scottie Recognize “Madeleine”?.- 7. Notes on Fred Astaire.- Part IV: Memory Theaters.- 8. Memory Theaters: Casablanca and Breathless.- Part V: The Structure of Complex Images.- 9. The Cukor “Problem”: David Copperfield, Holiday, and The Philadelphia Story.- 10. The Structure of Complex Images: Abbas Kiarostami’s Tickets.ReviewsAuthor InformationRobert B. Ray is Professor of English at the University of Florida, USA. He is the author of A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema: 1930-1980, The Avant-Garde Finds Andy Hardy, How a Film Theory Got Lost and Other Mysteries in Cultural Studies, The ABCs of Classic Hollywood, and Walden X 40. He is also a member of The Vulgar Boatmen, whose records include You and Your Sister, Please Panic, Opposite Sex, and Wide Awake. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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