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Informationen zum Autor John Gibbs is Senior Lecturer in Film at the University of Reading Klappentext Approaches to the detailed analysis of film and related questions about interpretations and value are once again being widely debated in film studies. Style and meaning is the first edited collection for many years to focus on these matters. The essays - which include contributions by established film scholars (such as George M. Wilson, V. F. Perkins and Laura Mulvey) and by younger writers in the field - centre on methods of close analysis and ground their discussion in the detail of individual films.With a common focus on the choices made by filmmakers, the writers explores different aspects of the relationship between textual detail and broader conceptual frameworks. Some chapters examine individual aspects of filmmaking - the long take, cinematography, space and point of view, unreliable narration. Others take up different kinds of questions which are equally crucial to textual analysis and interpretation, including: meaning and value; emotional response; the concept of 'the fictional world'; new technologies and film analysis. The selection of films has been made to reflect not only those areas of film history which traditionally been explored through mise-en-scène criticism, but also areas such as the avant-garde and television drama which have not tended to receives such detailed investigation. In these ways the book conducts a series of dialogues with issues in film study which are specifically provoked by close analysis.Style and meaning is an important new initiative in the varied literature of film studies. its highly readable collection of analyses and variety of approaches will prove popular on undergraduate courses while providing an invaluable resource for graduate students and teachers of film and media. Zusammenfassung Approaches to the detailed analysis of film and related questions about interpretation and value are once again being widely debated in film studies. Style and meaning is the first edited collection for many years to focus on these matters. All the essays centre on methods of close analysis and ground their discussion in the detail of films. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction John Gibbs and Douglas Pye1 Where is the world? The horizon of events in movie fictionV. F. Perkins2 From detail to meaning: Badlands (Terence Malick, 1973) and cinematic articulationJonathan Bignell3 Narrative and visual pleasures in the The Scarlet Empress (Josef von Sternberg, 1934)George M. Wilson4 The Dandy and the Magdalen: interpreting the long take in Hitchcock's Under Capricorn (1949)5 Character interiority: space, point of view and performance in Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958)Neill Potts6 Narration, point of view and patterns in the soundtrack of Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls, 1948)Steve Neale7 Revisiting Preminger: Bonjour Tristesse (1958) and close readingJohn Gibbs and John Pye8 Meaning and value in The Jazz Singer (Alan Crosland, 1927)9 A Hollyswooed art firlm: Liebestraum (Mike Figgis, 1991)Michael Walker10 Swimming and sinking: form and meaning in an avant-garde filmJim Hillier11 'Knowings one's place': frame-breaking, embarrassment and irony in La Cérémonie (Claude Chabrol, 1995)Deborah Thomas12 'Television aesthetics' and close analysis: style, mood and engagement in Perfect Strangers (Stephen Poliakoff, 2001)Sarah Cardwell13 How cinematography creates meaning in Happy Together (Wong Kar-Wai, 1997) Cathy Grennhalgh14 Motes on teaching film styleAndrew Klevan15 Repetition and return: textual analysis and Douglas Sirk in the twenty-first centuryLaura Mulvey...
