Overhearing Film Dialogue

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Sommario

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

Info autore

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).

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Kozloff, Sarah Kozloff, Kozloff Sarah, Sarah Kozloff
• Con la collaborazione di: Sarah Kozloff (Editore)
• Editore: University Of California Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 21.03.2000
• EAN: 9780520221383
• ISBN: 978-0-520-22138-3
• Pagine: 332
• Categorie: Libri scolastici > Didattica > Formazione professionale; Films, cinema, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Dance & Other Performing Arts