Belaboured - The Work of Film Style

A study of film style as a key element in film production, addressing a range of film production styles across historical and national contexts: 'Mildred Pierce', 'White Christmas', the films of Maya Deren, Pasolini, Antonioni, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and contemporary Asian filmmakers including Jia Zhangke and Apitchatopong Weeresethakul.

About the author

John David Rhodes is Lecturer in Film at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is author of the BFI Film Classic on Meshes of Afternoon (2011), Stupendous, Miserable City: Pasolini's Rome (2007), and 'Spectactle of Property: The House in American Film' (2017) and has co-edited Taking Place: Location and the Moving Image (2011), Michelangelo Antonioni: Centenary Essays (BFI Publishing, 2011), and On Michael Haneke (2010).

Product details

• Authors: John David Rhodes
• Assisted by: Lee Grieveson (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 01.01.2026
• EAN: 9781844575381
• ISBN: 978-1-84457-538-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 172 mm x 234 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: Cultural Histories of Cinema
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet