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Overhearing Film Dialogue

English · Paperback / Softback

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List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Study of Filmic Speech
PART ONE
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS
1. The Functions of Dialogue in Narrative Film
2. Structural and Stylistic Variables
3· Integration
PART TWO
DIALOGUE AND GENRE
4· Verbal Frontiers: Dialogue in Westerns
5· Word Play: Dialogue in Screwball Comedies
6. Words as Weapons: Dialogue in Gangster Films
7· Misunderstandings: Dialogue in Melodramas
Conclusion
Notes
Select Filmography
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Sarah Kozloff is Professor and Chair of film studies at Vassar College. She is the author of Invisible Storytellers: Voice-Over Narration in American Fiction Film (California, 1988).

Summary

Discusses dozens of classic and contemporary films ranging from "Bringing Up Baby" to "Terms of Endearment", from "Stagecoach" to "Reservoir Dogs". This book studies the use of dialogue in American film. It shows why dialogue has been neglected in the analysis of narrative film.

Product details

Authors Kozloff, Sarah Kozloff, Kozloff Sarah, Sarah Kozloff
Assisted by Sarah Kozloff (Editor)
Publisher University Of California Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 21.03.2000
 
EAN 9780520221383
ISBN 978-0-520-22138-3
No. of pages 332
Subjects Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs
Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV

Films, cinema, United States of America, USA, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Dance & Other Performing Arts, Film history, theory or criticism

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