''I'' of the Camera - Essays in Film Criticism, History, and Aesthetics

Klappentext This second edition of William Rothman's classic includes fourteen new essays and a new foreword. Zusammenfassung The 'I' of the Camera has become a classic in the literature of film. William Rothman challenges readers to think about film in adventurous ways that are more open to movies and our experience of them. This second edition includes fourteen new essays and a new foreword. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Hollywood reconsidered: reflections on the classical American cinema; 2. D. W. Griffith and the birth of the movies; 3. Judith of Bethulia; 4. True heart Griffith; 5. The ending of City Lights; 6. The Goddess: reflections on melodrama east and west; 7. Red Dust: the erotic screen image; 8. Virtue and villainy in the face of the camera; 9. Pathos and transfiguration in the face of the camera: a reading of Stella Dallas; 10. Viewing the world in black and white: race and the melodrama of the unknown woman; 11. Howard Hawks and Bringing Up Baby; 12. The filmmaker in the film: Octave and the rules of Renoir's game; 13. Stagecoach and the quest for selfhood; 14. To have and to have not adapted a film from a novel; 15. Hollywood and the rise of suburbia; 16. Nobody's perfect: Billy Wilder and the postwar American cinema; 17. The River; 18. Vertigo: the unknown woman in Hitchcock; 19. North by Northwest: Hitchcock's monument to the Hitchcock film; 20. The villain in Hitchcock; 21. Thoughts on Hitchcock's authorship; 22. Eternal vérités: cinema-vérité and classical cinema; 23. Visconti's Death in Venice; 24. Alfred Guzzetti's Family Portrait Sittings; 25. The taste for beauty; 26. A Tale of Winter: philosophical thought in the films of Eric Rohmer; 27. The 'New Latin American Cinema'; 28. What is American about American film study.

Product details

• Authors: William Rothman, William (University of Miami) Rothman
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.12.2003
• EAN: 9780521527248
• ISBN: 978-0-521-52724-8
• No. of pages: 424
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Film; Cambridge Studies in Film
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet